• What are the invisible forces that shape our assumptions about success at work?

• How do organizations knowingly or unknowingly shape our beliefs, our identities, and our sense of what's professionally right and wrong?

• And what would it take for organizations that genuinely want to be human-centered to examine the beliefs about the good worker, productivity, performance, merit, ambition, and commitment that prevent anything more than surface change?

 

These are the questions this site sits with.

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Working Notions looks at organizational life through the lenses of language, psychology, sociology, and critical theory — not to produce cynicism, but to produce clarity.

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The goal is to see what is usually invisible: the inherited stories that make the current arrangement feel not just normal but deserved, the systems we reproduce without examining, and the language we use to describe good work and who is capable of it.

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Some pieces are long. Some are short. All of them are attempts to look carefully at things we usually take for granted.