Ribena Beetroot

“True leadership requires the identification of some problem requiring attention and action, and the promotion of activities to produce a solution. In basic assumption mentality, however, there is a collusive interdependence between the leader and the led, whereby the leader will be followed only as long as he or she fulfils the basic assumption task of the group...[such as] providing for members' needs to be cared for...identify[ing] an enemy either within or outside the group...[or] foster[ing] hope that the future will be better...The leader who fails to behave in these ways will be ignored, and eventually the group will turn to an alternative leader...The basic assumption leader is essentially a creation or puppet of the group, who is manipulated to fulfil its wishes and to evade difficult realities.”
― Anton Obholzer, The Unconscious at Work: A Tavistock Approach to Making Sense of Organizational Life

“The instrument with which one explores unconscious processes is oneself - one's own experience of and feelings about the shared situation. If the self is to be the scientific instrument...an analyst must first undertake an analysis of their own, through which they should be able to distinguish what comes from themselves...and what belongs to the patient.”
― Anton Obholzer, The Unconscious at Work: A Tavistock Approach to Making Sense of Organizational Life

“What will remain of you is what you chose to give away,

Instead of keeping it in a rusty chest.

What will remain of you is a secret garden,

And a forgotten flower that never faded.

What you gave will, in time, blossom in others.

When a life is lost, it will be found again.

What will remain of you is what you freely gave

With open arms one sunny morning.

What will remain of you is something you once lost,

And that you yearned for since before you first awoke.

Even the pain you felt will live again in others.

For when a life is lost, it will be found again.

What will remain of you is a fallen tear,

A smile that grew forth from the depths of your heart.

What will remain of you are the seeds that you sowed,

That you shared with those who were starving for comfort.

And the seeds that you sowed will take root in other hearts in turn.

Because when a life is lost, it will be found again.”
― Simone Weil

“Forgive before they do, and nothing can get to you.”
― Matthew Edward Hall