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Irving Layton is considered to be a literary mentor of singer-writer Leonard Cohen. From Wikipedia we learn that Leonard Cohen once said of Layton, “I taught him how to dress, and he taught me how to live forever.” Leonard Cohen’s words, with reference to Layton, formed the background for this image of a Crazy conversation at work:

Always after I tell him
what I intend to do next,
Layton solemnly inquires:
Leonard, are you sure
you’re doing the wrong thing?

Questions
- Where do you turn to for advice?
- How much clear direction do you get from your God or religion, your conscience and your friends?
- Who gives you the other 10%? In other words, who can you trust to challenge you with care and candour so that you deeply examine your motives when you need to make decisions that impact your life?

~ Dene Rossouw
TheNarrativeCoach.com

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The Corporatzi – learning from crazy conversations at work

Do crazy conversations happen at your workplace?

Crazy conversations at work usually occur under the formal radar of the organization. Some of it is destructive and clogs up an organization’s clarity and focus. It’s the slow build-up of these types of conversations, a corporate cholesterol, that can kill an organization.

On the other hand, crazy conversations at work are sometimes the real organizational conversations and stories that are going on beneath the company radar. This is where the real pulse, innovation, frustration, vision and expectations of the people are echoed – in the corridors and around the coffee machine.

These conversations are important signals from staff, customers and key stakeholders. They exist in the organizational unconscious, in other words, below the organizational radar and official channels.

Crazy conversations at work can reflect systems of cause and effect, and dysfunctional dances between divisions, departments, stakeholders, suppliers and customers.

Crazy conversations at work also reflect the underlying patterns, blind reflex behaviours and hidden potentials.

The Corporatzi is a tongue-in-cheek look at what we can learn from crazy conversations that take place at work. Hopefully, insights from these conversations in strip form will help us recognize what’s really going on, and challenge us to ask the right questions. And at the very least, they should bring sanity and clarity to the way we show up at work.

~ Dene Rossouw

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