Care for a tribal workplace

via Robert Paterson's Weblog: Daycare and the Humane Society

I think that we often confuse care with love. We confuse looking after with attention. We confuse professionalism with attachment. We confuse services with empathy.

Community and the tribe - the essence of a healthy society has all but been replaced by institutions. But I have hope. Pressed into a corner by titanic forces, small stirrings of community are emerging. It is I think the change in how we work that gives me the most hope. With a tribal workplace the crazy separation between the economic and the social collapses.

In the tribal workplace, we find again the social and the economic unit that we need. Living a tribal life again enables us to perform both the economic and the social tasks in relationships that mean something.