In past newsletters, I have reviewed several books on the transindividual, and while those were densely theoretical, I am now working on making them more practical as a basis for a new approach to change. The fundamental question I am asking is, if the individual and the collective are mutually co-created, then how would that change how we think of

In the previous newsletter, we looked at how Yves Citton defines power (as the flow of desire and belief) in his book Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds. In this newsletter, we will explore narrative as a form of power and examine how we can use it to benefit ourselves as managers. As we concluded last time, we saw how

‘I’m telling people that they’ve tried everything, and now they have to try mythocracy. They’ve got a democracy, theocracy. The mythocracy is what you never came to be that you should be.’ – Sun Ra 1 Yves Citton’s Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our World is a book about the nature of power and how storytelling shapes that power. To understand

This summer, I will give a talk at Agile 2025 on how we shape and are shaped by the systems we inhabit. For research on that talk, I have continued to investigate the concept of the transindividual. In this newsletter, I will look more specifically at the work of Étienne Balibar, one of the modern thinkers who have explored this

It is a common theme to hear from coaches that change isn’t good or bad; your mindset makes it what it is. These coaches then teach you to change your mindset to take advantage of any disruption as a new opportunity. I understand why this approach is appealing: people want to feel good, and coaches usually work with individuals and,