Am I living in a dysfunctional organization?

Yes. You are. Might as well step up and own it right now. Not only are you working and learning in a dysfunctional organization, you are also living in a dysfunctional home within a dysfunctional community. Indeed, you are dysfunctional yourself. Why such an aggressive confrontation? Because, if you don’t see that you are trapped, how can you ever get out?

Before you become too offended by this confrontation, you might want to hear what some intellectual giants such as Camus, Nietzsche, Carkhuff, Reich, and Gurdjieff have said about the kind of lives we are living and the kinds of communities we are building.

In his introduction to The Plague, Camus says,

Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’s ...

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