A stressed-up week, starting to look forward to the summer holiday. I'm going to be changing jobs in August and am trying desperately to wrap everything up before I leave. Looking forward to the new position, new ideas and shaking up my basic sense of security as I am socialized into a new orgnizational culture. Also looking forward to teaching new courses to new students.

One of the most exciting new ideas I have been working on with a bunch of colleagues is an upcoming web community called Opensource organizing. Our idea is to create a community where everybody can access and develop strategy, leadership and organizing practices, and their share experiences of using different such practices in different contexts. It will be a meeting place for academics and practitioners. From an academic viewpoint such as mine, most of the interesting action in organizations takes place where such practices are employed, and through a knowledge transfer between practitioners and academics, we can hopefully learn new things about organizations.

All in all, the open-endedness of my current situation is very pleasing after a long stretch of doing basically the same things. That... and the upcoming summer holidays.