ENERGIZE
Energy, focus, attention, connection -- what is the energy that's set, on the context of driving forward; uncovering the new? That is personal. That's brand. That is human; that's enterprise. "energy is eternal delight" -- it is the captivation of attention and spectacle, because it's sensible, it's felt and the touch of energy brings a charge to action. Energy and interlacement -- the weaving of ideas and humanity; brand and energy -- and the mix in the match how people work in enterprise;...
MEDITATIONS ON PLACE | NYC: SEPTEMBER, 2001
2001 | Girvin photo journal, September: NYC MEDITATIONS ON PLACE AND THE PROFUNDITY OF SENSE | NYC: SEPTEMBER, 2001 ––––––––––––– The sight of scene unknowing and the scented perfume of dissolution It was a couple of weeks after 9.11.2001 that I, along with a Girvin colleague, returned to NYC. We were working in the city, but we didn't really have an office there. Just working there a lot, as well as the eastern market front -- and flying there was the best option. There was a Girvin team in...
S A N C T A S A N C T O R U M
sanctum \SANK-tum\, noun; Alone, this morning, I was thinking about the quietude of the place that I am, the place that I am being in -- and I considered -- I held, that idea of place and magic. That place of retreat -- and respite. Long back, being in Rome, and hearing of the holiest of holies -- a place in, if you can imagine it, the Vatican, I contemplated that idea of sacred space. But, to what is holy; to what is sacred space -- a place of sanctity? And since that time, traveling -- I've...
THE MOTHER OF COURAGE
EXPLORING FEMININE LEADERSHIP The power of the feminine principal I've been working with three (new) clients, all women, whose names shall be held in reserve, for now -- but it's interesting to contemplate the character of the feminine, when it comes to their leadership. There is a balance -- even in feminine organizations -- between the masculine principles of management, and the intuitive instinct of the reactive response. Beyond that, there are more leaders, over time -- each founded by,...
WHAT IS OUT, WHAT IS IN
THE PORTALS TO SEEING SOME ONE WAS TALKING TO ME ABOUT WINDOWS. Actually, I was looking at old windows and wondering about what's been seen between the seer and the sight beyond. These were old windows -- that were removed from houses. They were being sold as recycled objects. All showed time, wear and use; edges worn, some panes cracked -- and I pondered, that now, as I lay them on the floor, concrete staring through, what would their character be? What could have been seen? What was on the...
STRATEGIES OF NAMING
The Naming of Things THE MYSTICAL ROOTS OF THE GATHERING OF NAMES. An ancient principle of voice struggles in the subjective empowerment of words -- as vessels for improvised ideas -- and the named premise of ideals. I've written in the past about the idea of the thing. The very name: thing, is something that speaks to a depth of meaning. Centuries back, thing was the matter of a meeting, a deliberation -- an entity being discussed. Earlier -- it was about time; and it might even relate to the...
SEND HELP
WHAT LANGUAGE: YOUR MESSAGE? WHAT CALL: YOUR PLEA? WHAT TONE: YOUR HOPE? HOW LOUD: YOUR REACH? Sometimes I'm asking for help. But I'm not asking for help in the right way. One calls out, but the call falls on deafness. The point might be that the call is incorrect, it's the wrong language. Or, the idea of that plea might be framed in a manner that isn't rightly conveyed. A call is one thing; a shout, another. A scream -- still another; a whisper another. I can recall, working with children,...
LOOK(ING) OUT
Studying the nature of surveillance | the lookout, the sentinel, the scout (and the brand). S E N T I N E L F O R T H E B R A N D Looking out: over the shifting world, there is what is flowing out -- the push; and what is flowing in -- the pull. The question might be, do you look out, in the nature of seeing what's happening in the marketplace, and what that might mean in the evolution of strategy? These days, I'm on the road, it feels, more than I'm in Seattle -- jumping from project to...
POWERPOLE
L E A D E R S H I P M A G N E T I S M In the modeling of a group of people, there is invariably a "power pole." Working with people, I look for that energized place of energy. Who's there? In the clustering of people, there is the layering of the rings of connections, in any organization, there is a person that is the center-point of that energy -- others gather round, and link into that vibration. People are connected to others with a kind of energy. There are types of magnetism -- some,...
ABRACADABRA | Alphabet Amulets
I got a note from some friends at the Oxford English Dictionary. It was about this word, "abracadabra" -- and perhaps you've got the same one, since you might have friends there too. Earlier in my life, studying the history of the word, the real key is linking historical references, the actual "use" of the word to form connections -- for one collective approach to studying language. But you can dig far deeper, looking into the etymological references of words that might range back thousands of...