Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
Some people may wonder why I am posting my learning journal publicly for my organizational behaviour course. Fair question. Honestly, it is something I probably should have done with my Communication and Conflict Management course as well. I did keep a learning journal for that course, but I never really posted it publicly. Right now, … Continue reading Why I’m Publishing My Learning Journal in Public
MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Today’s organizational behaviour reading focused on teams: what they are, why they exist, and how different types of teams function inside an organization. At first glance, a team sounds simple. Put people together, give them a goal, and call them a team. But organizational behaviour is more precise than that. … Continue reading What are Teams?
Reader’s Moment: Maybe you have a dream you keep circling. Not because it is foolish. Not because it is impossible. Not because you are lazy, broken, or incapable. Maybe you keep circling it because the dream still feels safer than the first real step. You can imagine the book. You can imagine the business. You … Continue reading The Dream Does Not Become Real Until You Give It Conditions
Today’s organizational behaviour material pushed me into a larger question: when we talk about organizations, are we really talking about systems, or are we still pretending organizations are only built out of policies, managers, customers, and profit? The material on leadership systems, communication, accountability, delivery, performance, and measurement makes one thing clear: an organization is … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour: Systems, Stakeholders, and the Meaning of Work
Hey there, Standing on the Ledge. How are you today? I am feeling kind of blah. Not destroyed. Not in crisis. Not even angry in any clean or useful way. Just blah. Life has taken on that flat, grey, eh quality lately, and I have been trying to figure out why. Part of it may … Continue reading I Lost the Vent in the Work
I am not going to reproduce the private conversation here, because the point is not to put another person on trial. But the pattern matters. I notified someone that I was sick and would not make it in. I apologized. The response was not just frustration about the impact. The response carried a moral charge: … Continue reading The Message That Triggered This Reflection
Reader’s Moment: If you work inside someone else’s building, but you are employed by a third-party contractor, who do you complain to when something is going wrong? That sounds like a simple question. It is not. Because when you are the person physically on site, the client can start to feel like the real boss. … Continue reading Don’t Make the Client Your Confidant
Reader’s Moment: Maybe you have had a day where your body simply refused to keep up with the story other people had written for you. You were supposed to show up. You were supposed to be reliable. You were supposed to be the steady one, the responsible one, the person who knows better, the person … Continue reading The Body Is Not a Breach of Character
Category: MGT2382 Learning Journal Date: May 12 Today I ran a quick first pass through the opening assignment for MGT2382 – Organizational Behaviour, mostly just to get a feel for what the course is asking of me. What stood out immediately was the language. Some of it is familiar, but it is not always being … Continue reading MGT2382 Learning Journal: Norms, Values, and Finding the Needle
Some motives do not announce themselves at the time. They sit under the decision. They push from below. Years later, you look back and realize you were not only trying to make money, buy a house, start a business, or build a life. You were trying to get out from under conditions you could not … Continue reading The Things I Built Because I Was Tired of Living Under Someone Else’s Rules
Standing on the Ledge 