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"I believe that man will not
merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone
among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a
spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."
-- William Faulkner
Nobel Prize acceptance
speech, December, 1950
A human being is part of
a whole, called by us the Universe… He experiences himself, his thoughts
and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us … Our task must be to free
ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to
embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
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We are a group of
researchers working in business schools who strive to create a new vision of
organizations as sites for the development and expression of compassion.
We are part of a broader community of scholars who are dedicated to
developing a perspective on organizations as sites for human growth and
the development of human strengths.
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Our Members
Jane Dutton
Robert L Kahn Distinguished Professor of Business Administration and
Psychology, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Peter Frost
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia - In Memoriam
Jason
Kanov
Assistant Professor of Management, College of Business and
Economics, Western Washington University
Jacoba
Lilius
Assistant Professor, School of Policy Studies and School of
Business, Queen's University
Sally Maitlis
Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour and
Human Resources, Sauder School of Business, University of British
Columbia
Monica
Worline
Assistant Professor of Organization and Management, Guoizeta School of Business, Emory University
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Our Mission
We do high quality work on
compassion in a generative setting, where we can't wait to see what
comes next.
Our Principles
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We attempt to live in
alignment with what we study, and our research has an inner life as
well as an outer life.
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We transform ourselves
and our professional practice through the stories that we tell.
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We represent
organizations as vibrant and alive, and paint them in their full
palette of colors.
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We create a context in
which all of our research participants can benefit from their
engagement in our work
Our Practices
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We do our work in a
spirit of playfulness and joy. We aim to have fun!
We use our personal experiences of living and learning in
organizations as a basis from which to understand the world.
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We treat experience other
than our own as a deep and valid reflection of ideas about social
and organizational life.
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We acknowledge that our
practices are our garden--the more we tend and nourish them, the
more we will flourish.
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We learn best through
empathy. We are there for each other as research partners while
respecting each other's boundaries.
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We honor the physical and
emotional aspects of learning as well as the mental ones.
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We create a broad
foundation for all of our work, drawing from art, literature,
religion, history, culture and social theory.
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We build bridges to other
work in our field, attuned to the ways in which we enable people to
enter our work and to walk along with us.
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We accommodate the flux
in our lives at the same time that we create high impact products.
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We aspire to represent
our work in diverse forms so that it increases understanding and
inspires people to see new organizational possibilities.
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