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The Play of “Selves” in Organization

The purpose of the work of building adaptive organizations is to bring out the best human qualities in people instead of sub-human...

Ego and Self at Work

Ego and Self at Work Over the forty years that I have worked as a consulting organizational psychologist, two things have become clear to...

Up-shifting: Seven Ways to Raise Awareness

We are familiar with taking care of the things that make up our everyday lives: our house, our car, our bodies, our relationships, our...

Organizations That Bring Out the Best in People

Sometimes I have the opportunity to ask as group “When did you experience working really well together?” Quite often the answer pertains...

Collaboration and the Team:The Fundamental Unit of Adaptive Organization

We may be entering a new phase of human history- driven by need. The complexity and scale of the challenges we face, to our very...

Finding Leadership

We seem to have lost our way with leadership. “Leader” seems to have come to mean somebody who gets me what I want, or at least tells me...

What Management Can Do in The Time of Social Distancing – Connect!

One of the benefits of crisis is, we are reminded of the things that really matter. The social distancing imperative is revealing how...

Kim Payton, PhD Organizational Psychologist