@mikechitty
Leadership, management and enchantment. https://open.substack.com/pub/freshthinking what if beneath all the noise there’s still a song playing ancient, unbroken, waiting? https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/an-introduction-to-relational-disobedience-4693683
"bureaucratic demands of performance management causing immense moral harms"
"Professionals often describe feeling caught between the ethical demands of care and the bureaucratic demands of performance management causing immense moral harms"
#Healthcare
#CriticalThinking
Great post, this is why I used to love Tw1tter: really thoughtful reads like this
Another remarkable 90 minutes today, following The Thread 🧵 …
I have just written a longer piece exploring these themes:
substack.com/@mikechitty/...
I have written on why must focus on changing the system rather than just attacking the rich.
When we focus blame on any group and de-humanise them, be it billionaires or immigrants we deny our own complicity in an evil system open.substack.com/pub/freshthi...
When you spend so many hours so close to suffering, how are you supposed to maintain an openess towards to suffering? To allow yourlself to really practice compassion?
Especially when the volume of work that you are expected to do makes any real relationship impossible?
I have written on why must focus on changing the system rather than just attacking the rich.
When we focus blame on any group and de-humanise them, be it billionaires or immigrants we deny our own complicity in an evil system open.substack.com/pub/freshthi...
I have just written a longer piece exploring these themes:
substack.com/@mikechitty/...
What happened here is not just a funding problem, but a fundamental cultural shift.
Care has been reframed as a private problem rather than a shared responsibility.
As an opportunity to make a profit rather than a life.
And, even if it was relying on the morality of a wealthy elite to care for the rest of us is a crazy idea.
So moral ambition can’t be about inspiring rich folk to invest more in easing suffering of those made poor through their greed.
Is it possible to design an economic system that reliably produces billionaires who will then reliably undo the harms the system produces?
I think not.
The real question is not why care systems struggle.
It is why we ever believed a society could flourish without care at its heart.
It is the human condition perhaps...
Care is not a luxury to be afforded once economic growth has been secured. It is the ground from which all human flourishing grows.
When dependence is treated as abnormal, care becomes something that appears only at the margins of life rather than at its centre.
When care works well, nothing dramatic happens. People simply live their lives with dignity, connection and meaning.
Without soulful fathers (and mothers) our society is left with mere reason and ideology as guides…
Thomas Moore
Care is not a marginal activity within society. It is the foundation upon which ALL other activity rests…
We have come to see care as a marginal activity for the unfortunate rather than as the foundation of a good society.
Utilitarianism sees care as a drag rather than a condition of civility…
The fact that Isabel Oakeshott, economic migrant to the UAE may just turn into a refugee fleeing to the UK from a war zone will cause a level of schadenfreude in me that may just make me topple right over.
Unless you kill American citizens while under our command.
Then you will be exonerated and have our full backing.
The only thing that causes a serious problem is us…
Gary Numan
the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy
It worries me tbh, we need continued emphasis on climate change as it remains biggest threat
Ian Fleming wrote Moonraker in 1955.
The villain?
A super-rich industrialist.
Rocket builder.
Public hero.
Secret Nazi.
Wants chaos.
Yeah… totally unrealistic. 😌
Just a silly old spy story from 70 years ago.
Nothing to see here.
two posters side by side - one in English saying Never mind the ballots by the band Chumbawamba, and the other in French saying Le Vote Ne Change Rien, La Lutte Continue (the vote changes nothing, the struggle continues)
There's another Leeds related adaptation of an Atelier Populaire design -
It’s not over - Jeff Buckley
A film worthy of the music.
Wonderful.
If the racial discrimination is allowed to stand, cricket will do itself enormous harm.
It says much about the arrogance of the Indian owners that they’re so open about it.
Absolutely. I won’t be visiting Headingley for The Hundred that is for sure.
And, to be honest it’s no great sacrifice…
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