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Brave New Work 66. The Beauty of The Mythic and Mundane in Organizational Systems with Gayle Karen Young


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One of the most important aspects of organizational change and complexity is embracing fluidity. Rather than be mired in rigid lines and forced structure, we want to be dynamic, adaptive and—in a certain sense—poetic.

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans talk to Gayle Karen Young, an organizational development consultant and former Chief Cultural and Talent Officer at Wikimedia, about how she brings poetry into the workplace, the role of spirituality in her work, and what she calls the mythic and the mundane.

Learn more about Gayle on LinkedIn and on her website.


Mentioned references:

  • Guanyin
  • kōan
  • The Wikimedia Foundation
  • sangha
  • David Whyte, poet
  • Cynefin
  • Susanne Cook-Greuter
  • Viktor Frankl and Man’s Searching for Meeting
  • Balcony perspective
  • “tyranny of the quantifiable”
  • Barry Johnson “polarity management”
  • ”Let American Be America Again”, poem by Langston Hughes:
  • ”Pushing Through”, poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
  • ”Kindness”, poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • "Working Together”, poem by David Whyte
  • Ranier Maria Rilke
  • Mary Oliver
  • [Traveler, your footprints], poem by Antonio Machado


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