Despite bustling with people, the city is often not life-giving. The simplest act of walking to the office from the train station can be jarring – masses to one side and to the other, to the front and to the back – bumping and jostling, without common courtesy, space invaders. You’re too slow, get out of my way.
This morning I made an effort to transcend this daily occurrence. At a point in my walk, I stood away from the crowd, picked up this autumnal leaf, took a deep breath in… out… lifted it to the city skyline, and in that moment felt a sense of peace and life. Snap, snap, snap. Alas, all too soon… time to join the throng again.
This post was inspired by a conversation with my colleague Denice Van Der Putten, soon to be Lloyd!
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I am a ‘People Practitioner’ who has, over the years, been swept up by the tidal wave of change that has seen my profession go from being called Manpower Management to Personnel Management to Human Resource Management, and now back, well sort of… to Systemic People Management. I came up with the last phrase because I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with working within the confines of the ubiquitous neo-liberal approach to categorising and organising people. I believe that people are people, not merely assets, human capital or resources. While we do find fulfilment from PRODUCTivity, we are ultimately human beings, not human doings. I would like to transcend who we have become and becoming in a marketized, monetarised world and leave the corporatist worldview that reminds me so much of the allegory of Plato’s Cave.
I love God, my family, playing guitar, following Arsenal, travelling and taking and editing photos. This website is a celebration of all these things and more.
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