{"id":45,"date":"2007-04-09T17:35:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T21:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-02-20T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T17:55:16","slug":"on-becoming-a-more-fully-functioning-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/45\/on-becoming-a-more-fully-functioning-organization","title":{"rendered":"On Becoming a More \u201cFully Functioning\u201d Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some thoughts on how to access more of your entire organization’s potential<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I recently met with an organizational leader and human potential expert, Dr. Margaret \u201cPat\u201d Korb. At 85 years of age, Dr. Korb is still going strong – consulting, running trainings, and leading her organization, The Gestalt Center of Gainesville. During our meeting, she showed me a pamphlet written in the 1960\u2019s by another expert in human potential, Dr. Carl Rogers.<\/p>\n

The pamphlet was a summary of his decades of research into what increases the potential of human beings. As I browsed through the pamphlet, I realized to my surprise (and delight) that many of the ideas he was writing about over 40 years ago are only recently being brought into the business world via such influences as Jim Collins (Good to Great<\/em> and Built to Last<\/em>) Stephen Covey (in his newest work, The 8th Habit<\/em>), and Jack Welch (in such works as Winning<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Dr. Carl Rogers\u2019 major ideas, and some thoughts on how these ideas have positively impacted organizations over the last few decades, are listed below. <\/a>These ideas may help you to create a more \u201cfully functioning\u201d organization – and help you to be a more satisfied individual as you build such an organization:<\/p>\n