Author and Novelist Glynn Young
By Glynn Young In this fourth novel in the Dancing Priest series, Michael Kent-Hughes confronts a collapsing, scandal-wracked church and a collapsing city government. A trusted advisor finally confronts his own troubled past. Three teenagers ignite a reformation. And Sarah Kent-Hughes finds her long-disappeared mother and ministers to a dying soldier.
A conflict in the workplace is not uncommon. A workplace conflict battled out on Facebook, however, pulling in co-workers and the company, is not something you see every day. It happened at my company. And Human Resources asked that my team, the corporate social media team, do something about it. …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 14: The Poetry of Interpersonal Conflict
There’s nothing like a good crisis to demonstrate how little control an organization has. There’s also nothing like a good crisis to uncover the poetry in our souls. A product cancellation was looming, the cancellation to be imposed by a government agency. Thousands of jobs were at stake, not to …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 13: The Poetry of the Crisis
It was the days before PowerPoint. Holding our overhead transparencies, three of us sat waiting to be called into the management meeting. We were three public relations people, three poets, working for a chemical company. And it was our job to explain to the people running the company why we had to …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 12: The Poetry of Transparency
The worst view I ever had from my assigned office at work was of the building’s designated smoking area. I had the most coveted type of office – a closed-door office, with a window. Except the window faced the smoking area outside the building, with its awning-like protection and clouds of …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 10: The Poetry of Beauty on the Workplace
For most of the 20thcentury, the structure of corporations was based on the technology of mass production. It was a command-and-control model, with managers directing workers, who had a very specific task to accomplish. It was not unlike the military. In the 1970s, that structure began to break …
[Read More...] about Poetry at Work, Chapter 9: The Poet in the Culture of Control
An award-winning speechwriter and communications professional, Glynn Young is the author of three novels and the non-fiction book Poetry at Work.
