Tom Graves / Tetradian

As part of the setup for getting the ‘What is power, anyway?‘ slide-pack online at Slideshare, I’ve finally gotten round to doing something I should have done a year ago: a three-page reference-sheet version of the ‘Manifesto‘ on power in the workplace, that forms the intro and summary for my book Power and response-ability: the human side of systems.

I did the original version of this way back in 2001, but it’s still just as relevant today. Inspired in part by the structure and content of the Cluetrain Manifesto, it summarises the nature of power in the workplace, with a set of 95 statements under the following section-headings:

• Systems
• Economy and the ‘bottom line’
• Stakeholders and corporate culture
• Purpose and quality
• Knowledge
• Work-relationships
• Power and response-ability
• Human forms of power
• Power in the work-environment
• Sources of power
• Mistakes about power
• Power-addiction, winners and losers
• Scope of power-issues
• Conclusions and actions

As with all the reference-sheets, it’s a free download, of course. Hope you find it useful, anyway.

Prepared a handout on The Disciplines of Dowsing for the book-launch at the British Society of Dowsers conference this weekend, and realised it would probably be of more general use as well. You’ll find it up on the Tetradian Books website, at http://tetradianbooks.com/2008/09/disciplines-ref/ – free download in PDF format, as usual.

It’s a two-page (i.e. single-sheet) summary of the four ‘disciplines’ – Artist, Mystic, Scientist, Magician – as a useful ‘cheat-sheet’ for reference whilst working. The different perspectives and keyphrases that apply to each mode or discipline are listed under the following headings:

• mode’s role is…
• mode manages…
• mode responds to the context through…
• has decision-sequence of…
• use this mode when…
• you’re in this mode when…
• rules include…
• warning-signs of dubious discipline include…
• bridge to other modes with…

As with the book itself, the aim is to help boost the effective quality of work in dowsing and other subjective skills.

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