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Make Your Workplace More Democratic: Initiate Change from the Bottom (or Middle!) Up

Last month I was invited to speak at YAHOO! in the San Francisco Bay Area about organizational democracy. Afterward, the managing editor of YAHOO! Hot Jobs asked if I would write a piece for them about how to bring democracy to an organization if you’re a [...]

Phil Jackson, Basketball, and Organizational Democracy

Until recently, I knew very little about basketball. And only a month ago I learned who Phil Jackson was. However, in December when I was perusing the bookstore for a book to inspire my friend who is playing pro basketball in Europe, I found Phil Jackson’s book Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior [...]

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