Learning during interesting times: an opportunity for collective reflection?

An opportunity for reflection.

• The launch of the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI), a national non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness about patient safety and to facilitating the implementation of best practices (www.patientsafetyinstitute.ca). • The publication of the results of the Canadian Adverse Events Study (Baker, Norton et al. 2004), which identified an adverse events (AEs) rate of 7.5% (proj...

Mindfulness Meditation: An Interesting Opportunity for the Rheumatologist

Mindfulness meditation is a mental technique which cultivates attentional focus and stability by directing the mind to remain connected to the present experience, moment by moment. Scientific literature in healthy subjects have correlated mindfulness training to improvements in stress, anxiety and depressed mood. Moreover, basing on evidence we can state that mindfulness may have an important r...

Interesting times for Workflow Technology

These are most interesting times to be involved with workflow technology, whether as user, vendor, integrator or consultant. The concept behind workflow technology is simple. It is an effort to leverage automation to improve the way an organization works by making it “better, faster, cheaper.” It is the execution that is challenging, which is why these are most interesting times, and why the wi...

Learning Systems Organising Reflection – Organisational Learning as Collective, Experiential Learning

The article discusses shifts and continuities in practical and theoretical work on organisational learning since the mid 1980s within a tradition at the Work Research Institute (WRI) in Oslo promoting work place democracy. Projects over 20 years are reviewed. All the projects discussed have had a participatory action research design. The point, however, is the emerging justifications for the ch...

Living in interesting times.