Recently, I recorded a conversation with Michael Henderson from Cultures At Work.
Michael is a corporate anthropologist who has spent over 30 years observing how people work together. His work explores:
What drew me to this conversation with Michael was not a particular framework or model, but a deeper question about experience.
Enjoy the recording as your chance to see a conversation between two people reflecting on their experience.
This conversation moves across several ideas, including:
There is no fixed structure to what follows. It unfolds as an exploration, moving between ideas, examples, and reflections as they emerge.
To move directly to discussions that you might be of special interest, here are some approximate time points in the recording.
What I’m still thinking about from this conversation is not a single idea. Instead, a growing awareness of how easily experience turns into assumption. And how rarely we pause long enough to notice it happening.
I’ll continue exploring some of these ideas in future writing and conversations.
For more on this topic, download and read The Myths of Experience.
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