Saturday, February 05, 2011

Invisible

What organisations do and what organisations are. How different can they be.

5 comments:

Vaani Arora said...

The core thought that starts the organisation and the energies it attracts...sometimes converging, sometimes just too different to even stay in the same thought bubble. All get together and keep an organisation in a constant flux. Nothing stays, everything leaves...well, eventually. What do you think is the Invisible?

Aparna Kalley said...

Hmmm same thought crosses my mind many times. Understanding the external aspirations and internal context is crucial I feel. People are fundamental blocks of any organisation so how these blocks are stacked? what methods? and whether these blocks are allowed to be alive or not is a call that the governance structure has to determine. This is where is goes wrong I feel. What say?

Chin said...

@Vani: Hmmm... thats a thought. But some do survive - even if they change... I'm saying that somewhere what an organisation DOES engulfs everything it stands for. Sometimes what it DOESN'T do or is not allowed to do also completely distorts it.
Who you are is what you do, I feel. Or not?

Chin said...

@Ap: Yup. I think self reflection is key. Any governance system that doesn't make efforts to make room for this, fails.
When it comes to keeping the building blocks alive, sigh... so many of them, and so different at times ... feels like a mighty role...

Chin said...

@ Vaani: and oh what's invisible? The Identity built on goals and ideals sometimes shadows out the actual work. Who we are/ What we do as organisations - that's what's invisible. Only a name remains.