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We Need a Revival of Humanism

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Michael Gerson, a columnist for the Washington Post, recently wrote a piece calling for a revival of humanism. Here is a brief excerpt of Gerson’s reflections: Most Western societies, including the United States, have reached the stage of secularism without humanism. Our greatest efforts are spent on getting and keeping. Our defining creed is consumerism. Our memorials, according to T.S. Eliot, will be “the asphalt road and a thousand lost golf balls.”…What we need is a revival of humanism. Read Read more […]

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Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships – Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn

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Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships with Jeanne Bell, Director of Practice Advancement for Non Profit Quarterly. “If we can shift from thinking of our organizational relationships as “human resources” to be managed—their capital to be extracted over the life of the relationship—and shift to a frame of deep reciprocity, we will find as  leaders that it is indeed those relationships above all else that allow our organizations to accomplish the most extraordinary things.” Humanistic Read more […]

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Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships – Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn

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Moving from Extraction to Reciprocity in Work Relationships with Jeanne Bell, Director of Practice Advancement for Non Profit Quarterly. Join us Feb 22nd Noon Eastern for this Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn RSVP at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moving-from-extraction-to-reciprocity-in-work-relationships-humanistic-management-professionals-tickets-53885360564 “If we can shift from thinking of our organizational relationships as “human resources” to be managed—their Read more […]

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Climate Action Call

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Greta Thunberg, a 15 year old climate leader, calls for her fellow leaders to participate in a global climate strike on December 14th. She states: Climate leaders don’t just talk. They act. Link to her video call on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrSvuayBhaO/

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Critical Thinking and Humanism in Business

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Submitted by: Jennifer Hancock A humanistic approach to business is a way of understanding the interrelated nature of the problems we are solving and the people for who and with whom we are working. We are never simply solving one problem. All the problems of the company are related. We don’t want to fix one problem and create another problem if we can avoid it. Read the full article here: http://humanisthappiness.blogspot.com/2015/11/critical-thinking-and-humanism-in.html Read more […]

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Report to the Club of Rome: Transformation is Feasible

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  Submitted by Thomas Schauer: For your reading pleasure, please find attached the pdf version of the latest Report to the Club of Rome “Transformation is Feasible” by Jorgen Randers, Johan Rockström, and their team. Further distribution is welcome. Here is a brief excerpt from the report: This new report to the Club of Rome “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals within Planetary Boundaries”, by Jörgen Randers, Johan Rockström and Per-Espen Stoknes, is the forty-sixth Read more […]

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Beyond Empowerment to Self Management – Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn

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Beyond Empowerment to Self Management with Doug Kirkpatrick Join us Jan 25th 2019 at noon eastern for this Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-empowerment-to-self-management-humanistic-management-professionals-lunch-and-learn-tickets-53355375364 Co-creating a self-managed organizational ecosystem is more than just employee engagement, business performance, retention, and less bureaucracy. It’s the right thing to do. Is Read more […]

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10 Years After the Crash, Time to Stop Expecting Reform from Mainstream Economists?

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Submitted by Henry Leveson-Gower: Teaching in most management schools is dominated by mainstream economic thinking of maximising shareholder value and growth. If management schools are more generally going to move to a more humanistic approach to management, the dominance of mainstream economic thinking needs to be reduced. This is also clearly crucial to change how we organise our economy so that it is sustainable, fair and resilient. We have a strategy to do this and we hope to collaborate Read more […]

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Towards a More Humanistic Understanding of Human Motivations

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On Friday Nov 30th – the International Humanistic Management Association. Our guest: Prof. Manuel Guillén of the University of Valencia for a Humanistic Management Professionals Lunch and Learn on the topic of creating a more humanistic understanding of human motivations and how that impacts our work as management professionals.  The full video is here.

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Call for Abstracts (due December 15!): POS Research Conference, June 5-6, 2019

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Submitted by Erica Steckler: The Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) Research Conference is a gathering that welcomes connections with scholars in the IHMA community based on a shared passion for and focus on flourishing at and across various organizational levels of analysis. 2019 POS Research Conference Call for Abstracts   SUBMISSIONS DUE:December 14, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. ET The 2019 conference program includes a series of 12 research tracks and a visual presentation session, Read more […]

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