Backward Mutters

Category: Story

  • On Systems and Story

    “Every organization is built upon ‘an underlying systems story.’ He points out that ‘this is not a belief system. It is the continually repeated life story that determines how an organization feels, thinks, and thus acts. This systems story determines the way an organization behaves, no matter how the organizational…

  • BBC’s The Office: A 21st Century Pilgrim’s Progress

    David Brent: A Modern PilgrimDavid Brent battles a bevy of enemies: corporate, boorish friends, redundancy, and a comedy-less world. Eventually, Brent leaves the city of destruction, Wernham and Hogg and sets out on his own to find redemption. His journey ends in being able to put Finchy in his place…

  • BBC’s The Office: A 21st Century Pilgrim’s Progress

    The Slough of Despond, uh, Trading Estates“Now I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended this talk, they drew nigh to a very miry slough that was in the midst of the plain: and they being heedless, did both fall suddenly into the bog. The name of…