Simple systems, patterns, and embracing everyday norms achieve goals rapidly.
Is your system keeping you from achieving your goals?
Art is not formulaic, like a paint - by - numbers kit. It has life. It is viewed and appreciated. It moves and inspires. It invites participation, intermingling its own story with those of its observers.
When it comes to our own lives, we want to be works of art — individually created and unique. We are living beings and living beings cannot be manufactured on an assembly line, like a paint-by-numbers kit. Our souls long to be nourished with the life that emerges from becoming. Shaping an environment where people naturally connect is more like creating art than manufacturing a product. It marks a major shift: from programming community (i.e., following a master plan) to using principles of organic order to develop an environment where community can emerge.
This book wrestles with:
How do you create a place where people naturally connect?
How do you stop the tyranny of programs and meetings and become an ‘environmentalist’?
How can I plan and depend on spontaneity and synchronicity?
Anyone seeking to mobilize people to collective and cooperative effort or to promote organizational growth will find Joseph Myers’s Organic Community an invaluable resource. Whether educated about organizational systems or merely experiencing them in schools, sports, the military, work settings, or voluntary associations, we have all gotten used to and accepted many wrongheaded assumptions that run contrary to the organization’s goals. Myers acknowledges that his is a different kind of how-to book. As much, or more, it is a how-not-to book that exposes fallacies inherent in common organizational policies and procedures, which are all the more destructive in organizations relying on volunteer efforts. Myers offers nine tools, not ‘steps,’ the more of which one masters the more results are achieved. Application of even a few of these tools promises substantial improvement. “The book comes out of a small groups perspective and is aimed primarily at churches, but the principles set forth have application in organizations of all kinds.
– Ray Oldenburg
Joseph Myers
Do you ever feel like you’re missing opportunities that are hidden right in front of you? I provoke re-imagination to capture concealed and overlooked opportunities, reframe communication, and dig for clarity so that you and your business are compelled into the future.
• 25+years consulting, writing, speaking, and researching
• 3 best-selling resources
• Hundreds of the largest and fastest-growing organizations consulted
Joseph R. Myers is an entrepreneur, speaker, writer, and owner of josephrmyers.com, a consulting firm that assists organizations and individuals promote and develop healthy community and trust relationships. Author of best-selling books The Search to Belong and Organic Community, Myers is also Director of Marketing, Media and Communications at a film studio in Vancouver, BC.
Myers works with some of North America’s leading and most innovative organizations and faith-based businesses to strategize and re-imagine how to develop trusting, successful communities that result in a strong top- and bottom-line growth.
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Close Executive & Community Relations
Strong Relational Work Ethic
Organizational Leadership
Narratology Expert
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