On 06/29/2018 03:34 PM, Yosem Companys wrote:
Based on fifteen years of research and observation, "Tempered Radicals"
reveals that adaptive, diverse, family-friendly, and socially
responsible workplaces are built not by revolutionaries but by those she
calls 'tempered radicals' -- people who successfully walk the tightrope
between conformity and rebellion:
Yosem and Vesna, you might both be interested in the antediluvian
reflections of SDS members on what they called "Radicals in the
Professions":
http://www.sds-1960s.org/sds_wuo/radicals/
SDS was "Students for a Democratic Society" and as soon as they weren't
students anymore, they had to ask themselves, what are we going to do as
professionals? An organized revolutionary movement with a fairly stable
center in the town of Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, gave them a chance to
debate this question collectively and thereby set up an ethical
community for help in negotiating the most basic issues, like "Do I stay
or do I go?"
I wasn't around for those debates, but the example has led me to always
join or form communities of reflection about actual behavior in
pragmatic situations. And if people can be radically consistent in their
professional lives, that's fightin' the power says I.
best, BH
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