And another thing: organisational ethics and deficit areas

It's unsurprising that these polycrisis times have led to lots of conversations about how organisations are coping and responding: what we do, how we do it, and how we behave when doing so.
My latest 'and another thing' vlog ties together three key themes or deficit areas that have come out some of these recent conversations, observations and my ongoing governance reading.
With thanks to all those who have shared their thoughts and fears on these issues, these include:
- A lack of general governance readiness for when things start to go wrong;
- Poorly articulated organisational ethics and values that don't hold up when tested; and
- The decimation of formal and information ways of being with and communicating with each other, through the normalisation of previously unthinkable behaviours.
In full recognition of my privilege and the importance of maintaining perspective in the face of multiple local and global crises, it seems almost everyone in my circles are experiencing some level of brokenness or burnout at the state of the world at the moment.
In microcosm, our arts, cultural and non-profit sector is being torn apart by hurt and grief and harm after harm - to the point where I am more fearful of its future, its work and the wellbeing of the people within it than at any point in my 25+ year career.
I have many more questions than answers. There’s no formula for this. No experts. No precedent in most of our careers. So this is just another clumsy contribution to the long, large messy conversation of which we’re all taking part.
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