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#FotoVorschlag - Etwas aus Holz

Photo theme - Something made of wood

One of many totem poles at the Edwin C. DeWitt Carving Centre in Saxman, Alaska, taken on a trip there three years ago.

#Photography #Alaska #Saxman #Ketchikan #Totem #TotemPole #Art

#FotoVorschlag - Etwas aus Holz

Photo theme - Something made of wood

One of many totem poles at the Edwin C. DeWitt Carving Centre in Saxman, Alaska, taken on a trip there three years ago.

#Photography #Alaska #Saxman #Ketchikan #Totem #TotemPole #Art

It's happening! #totem ⚡️⚡️⚡️ photos by Wulf www.linkedin.com/posts/wulf-s...

Ciao Mondo
Totem!

#totem #dragon #drawing

Ciao Mondo
Totem!

#totem #dragon #drawing

Ciao Mondo.
Un anno fa circa ho disegnato su alcuni sassi per poi gettarli nei dintorni
Ebbene, mi aspettavo fossero tutti scomparsi; tra tempeste, marosi e alte maree... e invece qualcuno è rimasto.
Fossi una persona spirituale penserei a un #totem

#disegnaresuisassi #drago #natura #arte

Ciao Mondo.
Un anno fa circa ho disegnato su alcuni sassi per poi gettarli nei dintorni
Ebbene, mi aspettavo fossero tutti scomparsi; tra tempeste, marosi e alte maree... e invece qualcuno è rimasto.
Fossi una persona spirituale penserei a un #totem

#disegnaresuisassi #drago #natura #arte

'My Totem' On view in my art gallery Note: opening on desk-/laptop is recommended over a mobile phone 🙏 #KeraDamo #Heart #Totem #Procreate #Prayer

590 CV eléctricos, 0 a 100 km/h en 2,9 s y detalles en oro satinado. El Totem GT Electric 'Zeal 01' reinventa el Alfa Giulia GT con alma contemporánea ⚡🇮🇹 #Totem #AlfaRomeo #RestomodEléctrico

https://universomotor.com/totem-gt-electric-zeal-01-alfa-romeo-restomod/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116245026967760291

This keeb is better than most so-called “ergonomic” keyboard, but it’s still ridiculously expensive (280$).
There are a lot of good open-source keebs out there, that you can buy or build for a fraction of that amount: #Quacken, #Corne, #Totem, #Planck, #Atreus…

RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116245026967760291

This keeb is better than most so-called “ergonomic” keyboard, but it’s still ridiculously expensive (280$).
There are a lot of good open-source keebs out there, that you can buy or build for a fraction of that amount: #Quacken, #Corne, #Totem, #Planck, #Atreus…

Really fun problem I did a couple of weeks ago.
#bouldering #climbing #bloc #escalade #totem #totemmeyrin #meyrin

Really fun problem I did a couple of weeks ago.
#bouldering #climbing #bloc #escalade #totem #totemmeyrin #meyrin

Kaël - Tome 2 - Le sans-démon - Critiques - 1001BD.com https://www.1001bd.com/index.php?/ecriturecritiques/ka%25C3%25ABl-tome-2-le-sans-d%25C3%25A9mon-r6054/ Note : 3/5 @DrakooEditions #bd #jeunesse #fantasy #totem #anges #demons

Casa, mostri e meraviglie dell’artista che credeva nel libero arbitrio

https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=39750

#arte #scultura #artisti #pittori #ville #case #francia #loira #creatività #mostri #totem #figure #personaggi #novecento #luoghi #viaggi #dalmondo #giardini #viali #ambienti #puntidiriferimento #draghi #filosofia #metafore

Am Samstag 21.9. starten in #Landshut die 37. Interkulturellen Wochen (bis 20.10.) https://landshut-interkulturell.de/
Wir sind dabei mit dem Kinofilm MEIN TOTEMTIER UND ICH (FSK 6). Nicht nur Kinder, sondern auch die Erwachsenen werden knappe hundert spannende und humorvolle Minuten im Kino verbringen und am Ende vermutlich zu #Stachelschwein - Fans werden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8j3T0wwMw

#InterkulturelleWochen2024 #Totem #Kinderfilm

Friendship welcome #TotemPole carving at #Stólõ #FirstNations reserve office. 2022.

#Stolo aka #Staulo, #Stalo or #Stahlo & commonly referred to in #ethnographic literature as #FraserRiverIndians or #LowerFraserSalish, are a group of First Nations peoples inhabiting the #FraserValley & lower #FraserCanyon of #BritishColumbia, #Canada, part of the grouping of #CoastSalish nations. Stó꞉lō is the #Halqemeylem word for "river", so the Stó꞉lō are the #RiverPeople.

#BCFirstNations #Indigenous #Totem #Woodcarving #CedarCarving #PNW #Monochrome #photography #BWphoto #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #WorldInMyEyes #NativeCulture #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #TraditionalArt #IndigenousBC #IndigenousCulture

Friendship welcome #TotemPole carving at #Stólõ #FirstNations reserve office. 2022.

#Stolo aka #Staulo, #Stalo or #Stahlo & commonly referred to in #ethnographic literature as #FraserRiverIndians or #LowerFraserSalish, are a group of First Nations peoples inhabiting the #FraserValley & lower #FraserCanyon of #BritishColumbia, #Canada, part of the grouping of #CoastSalish nations. Stó꞉lō is the #Halqemeylem word for "river", so the Stó꞉lō are the #RiverPeople.

#BCFirstNations #Indigenous #Totem #Woodcarving #CedarCarving #PNW #Monochrome #photography #BWphoto #YYJphotographers #DisabledPhotographers #WorldInMyEyes #NativeCulture #IndigenousArt #NativeArt #TraditionalArt #IndigenousBC #IndigenousCulture

Strategy’s Eclipse and the Big Chief

One of the more provocative business articles I’ve read lately appeared just last week, on forbes.com. It’s a piece by Steve Denning about the collapse of the consulting firm Monitor. The article has already generated thousands of comments and what its own author, in a follow-up post, calls a lot of “social media brouhaha”.

Most of the discussion so far focuses on Denning’s analysis of Monitor’s collapse. He traces the firm’s demise to Michael Porter’s flawed idea that “sustainable competitive advantage” could be gained in markets “by studying the numbers and the existing structure of the industry.” Monitor, in Denning’s view, was selling an “illusory product” that merely “supports and advances the pretensions of the C-suite.” Where Monitor’s approach to strategy failed was where it matters now more than ever: helping businesses connect with or “delight” customers, or innovate, or do things that customers (or, for that matter, society as a whole) want them to do.

Not everyone agrees with this analysis, of course, and Denning has been responding to criticism and comment on the Forbes site and on Twitter. I am more intrigued by what Monitor’s downfall might signify – whether it indicates that there are larger changes afoot.

Denning himself wonders if the firm’s collapse marks the end of an “era”. Several of his readers and Tweeters (including me) have suggested that pure strategy plays are simply no longer viable. But that observation only scratches the surface, I think. The downfall of Monitor may indicate something else as well – a larger change in the configuration of CEO or executive power within the enterprise, and the end of a certain idea or iconography of the CEO.

Denning approaches this very thought as he lays out his historical argument, which is basically the story of how Michael Porter got lucky and launched Monitor at precisely the right moment. When Monitor first appeared on the scene in 1979, writes Denning, a new era was dawning:

Pursuit of shareholder value (“the dumbest idea in the world”) was just getting going with a vengeance. The C-suite was starting to realize that they could cash in, big time. Along comes Michael Porter with a rain dance that justifies their cashing in. Porter arrived at just the right time. Hopefully that era is now coming to an end. People are starting to see the rain dance for what it is.

I would hasten to add that the dumbest idea in the world, the doctrine of shareholder value, helped usher in another very bad idea that is still very much with us — the idea of the “CEO” that started to take hold at roughly around the time that acronym first appeared on the scene, in the early 1970s. The CEO is largely an invention of that period.

I’ve taken up this theme in a few posts (here and here and here). A number of journalists and academics have addressed this same point, directly and indirectly. For Rakesh Khurana, the cultish construct of the CEO emerges out of the transition from managerial to investor capitalism. In response to the growing power of institutional investors (like pension funds, bank trusts, insurance firms, endowment funds, and money managers), boards had, by the 1980s, come to focus almost exclusively on the search for an outside celebrity CEO “savior” who would not only appease and appeal to newly-empowered institutional investors but also make a big splash in the newly-emergent American business press.

Needless to say, this further consolidated decision-making power at the top of the corporate hierarchy. At the same time, the newly powerful CEO had become a cultural icon of celebrity and success. We made a totem of corporate executive power.

If the mantra of investor capitalism was “shareholder value,” the central mystery of the new faith was the “agency” problem (as described in a now-canonical 1976 paper by Jensen and Meckling [pdf]). The interests of shareholders and managers were now to be “aligned.” Results have been mixed: a myopia set in, putting the “focus more on the short-term management of the share price,” writes Christopher Bennett on a Conference Board blog post, “and less on the long-term management of the business.”

In a Washington Post Op Ed, Michael Useem (who’s written the book on investor capitalism) takes it one step further. He connects the “unrelenting pressure of the equity market on company leaders to meet quarterly TSR expectations” with the offshoring of operations, “regardless of the impact on the domestic workforce.” Worse, it’s invited leaders to behave like sociopaths, or at least irresponsibly: “an incessant equity-market demand on company leaders to focus on their own advantage whatever the disadvantage for others” has made “fewer executives and directors…able to step forward to advocate what is required for a vibrant economy, not just what is required for their own prosperity.”

Shareholder value may have not have been the dumbest idea ever, as Denning would have it, but it was, at best, a Faustian bargain for American society. It was an important article of faith — and not just for the believers, but for society as a whole, during the period in which the celebrity CEO took on his (yes, usually his) unique features and cast, all the trappings of his office.

Strategy, especially Monitor’s brand of strategy, played a crucial role here. Denning refers us to a passage in Matthew Stewart’s The Management Myth:

Porter’s theory thus played to the image of the CEO as a kind of superior being. As Stewart notes, “For all the strategy pioneers, strategy achieves its most perfect embodiment in the person at the top of management: the CEO. Embedded in strategic planning are the assumptions, first, that strategy is a decision-making sport involving the selection of markets and products; second, that the decisions are responsible for all of the value creation of a firm (or at least the “excess profits,” in Porter’s model); and, third, that the decider is the CEO. Strategy, says Porter, speaking for all the strategists, is thus ‘the ultimate act of choice.’ ‘The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader— the CEO.”

With the passing of Monitor, this concept of strategy may start to go by the board. And so, with any luck, will the idea of the CEO as the “superdecider” (Denning’s word) or super-anything. The rain dance is over, and we can now see the Big Chief as he really is.

#1970s #agencyProblem #authority #businessStrategy #celebrityCEO #CEO #consulting #corporateGovernance #cultOfTheCEO #investorCapitalism #leadership #managementTheory #managerialCapitalism #MatthewStewart #MichaelPorter #MichaelUseem #Monitor #myths #RakeshKhurana #sociopaths #SteveDenning #strategy #totem

"Gay Billy," manufactured by Totem in 1997, is Guest of Honor at Midge's Gay Pride Party 2025. #gaybilly #gay #gaydoll #doll #dolls #dollcollector #twentiethcentury #totem #1990s #gaypride #gaypridecelebration #gayprideparty #gaypridemonth #equalrights #civilrights #equality

Totem with Oyster for Colour Collective on Instagram

#Colour_Collective #Oyster #CCOyster #DigitalArt #MastodonArtShow #SequinWorldDigitalArt #Totem

Am Samstag 21.9. starten in #Landshut die 37. Interkulturellen Wochen (bis 20.10.) https://landshut-interkulturell.de/
Wir sind dabei mit dem Kinofilm MEIN TOTEMTIER UND ICH (FSK 6). Nicht nur Kinder, sondern auch die Erwachsenen werden knappe hundert spannende und humorvolle Minuten im Kino verbringen und am Ende vermutlich zu #Stachelschwein - Fans werden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8j3T0wwMw

#InterkulturelleWochen2024 #Totem #Kinderfilm

Am Samstag 21.9. starten in #Landshut die 37. Interkulturellen Wochen (bis 20.10.) https://landshut-interkulturell.de/
Wir sind dabei mit dem Kinofilm MEIN TOTEMTIER UND ICH (FSK 6). Nicht nur Kinder, sondern auch die Erwachsenen werden knappe hundert spannende und humorvolle Minuten im Kino verbringen und am Ende vermutlich zu #Stachelschwein - Fans werden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8j3T0wwMw

#InterkulturelleWochen2024 #Totem #Kinderfilm

Am Samstag 21.9. starten in #Landshut die 37. Interkulturellen Wochen (bis 20.10.) https://landshut-interkulturell.de/
Wir sind dabei mit dem Kinofilm MEIN TOTEMTIER UND ICH (FSK 6). Nicht nur Kinder, sondern auch die Erwachsenen werden knappe hundert spannende und humorvolle Minuten im Kino verbringen und am Ende vermutlich zu #Stachelschwein - Fans werden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU8j3T0wwMw

#InterkulturelleWochen2024 #Totem #Kinderfilm

L’Africa spaziale di Zak Ové, nella diaspora vissuta come viaggio tra universi tangenti https://www.jacoporanieri.com/blog/?p=42675

#arte #creatività #scultura #personaggi #artisti #tradizioni #africa #postmoderno #afrofuturismo #londra #Inghilterra #Trinidad #carnevale #maschere #storia #teatro #futuro #visitatori #immaginazione #totem #statue,

Cracked
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#art #mastodonart #doll #puppet #totem #broken #drawing #inkdrawing #bristolboard #marker #stippling #cell #cage #lonelinessepidemic #poverty #stiffness #wooden #shamanism #disconnection #immobilisation #retribalisation #dispirited #snapseededit #heartminddisconnect

Tonight was a good session! I'd done the first half and the second half of this boulder a couple of weeks ago.
Managed to link them on my first try today!

#bouldering #bloc #grimpe #escalade #totem

Tonight was a good session! I'd done the first half and the second half of this boulder a couple of weeks ago.
Managed to link them on my first try today!

#bouldering #bloc #grimpe #escalade #totem

Hi there! I've created this new mastodon account so I guess it's time for an #introduction!
I'm Jay, and I love bouldering, so I'll be posting videos of me climbing, like this one.
It's a problem I attempted a few times with no success. This was the try I finally cracked that left hand reach, the solution was to campus it (couldn't keep my feet for the life of me!). I guess I have a project!

#totem #escalade #climbing #bouldering #bloc #grimpe

Hi there! I've created this new mastodon account so I guess it's time for an #introduction!
I'm Jay, and I love bouldering, so I'll be posting videos of me climbing, like this one.
It's a problem I attempted a few times with no success. This was the try I finally cracked that left hand reach, the solution was to campus it (couldn't keep my feet for the life of me!). I guess I have a project!

#totem #escalade #climbing #bouldering #bloc #grimpe

A #rainy day today, so I won't be going out on a walk. Fine opportunity to reflect on things I'm grateful for. Among them is this happy little #raindrop; I've re-strung him twice in the years I've worn him, but he still brings a smile to my face.

Thanks again to @moonrabbit and to her excellent little shop at https://www.driftingspirits.art - you're doing great work.

Stay kind,
C

#raku #art #jewelry #totem #kami #ceramics #mindfulness

A #rainy day today, so I won't be going out on a walk. Fine opportunity to reflect on things I'm grateful for. Among them is this happy little #raindrop; I've re-strung him twice in the years I've worn him, but he still brings a smile to my face.

Thanks again to @moonrabbit and to her excellent little shop at https://www.driftingspirits.art - you're doing great work.

Stay kind,
C

#raku #art #jewelry #totem #kami #ceramics #mindfulness

Charm Bracelet by Douglas Coupland (2020) 📍 Brentwood, Burnaby, BC

The idea of collecting themes central to Burnaby in the form of a necklace connects retail culture to civic art and placemaking. Part of the Charm Bracelet experience is to see what’s in it.

#art #PublicArt #BurnabyArt #Totem

Figurine de bois : Tronc-celot

https://atelierholzlinge.eu/figurine-de-bois-tronc-celot/

This is a really unexpected flash! I'd seen a few people struggle, especially on the top section (the one I end up campusing).
I almost swung off right before that fun 360 (I didn't really need to do that, but was easier than to wait to wind back the other way)

#bouldering #climbing #bloc #escalade #totem #totem_meyrin

#photography #art #visualart #arte #fotografie #fotografia #color #colors #colours #couleurs #ExperimentalPhotography #ArteContemporanea #contemporanyart #ficciones #city #citylandscape #urbanismo #architecture #urbanism #arquitectura #urbanisme #streetphotography #fotocallejera #totem
https://pablomartinezcalleja.blogspot.com/2025/11/totem-urbano-totem-urbain-urban-totem.html

It's been a long time since I last posted, but I have been climbing regularly.
This new problem at my local gym has a really weird sequence. I haven't sent it, but I guess a few more tried and I'll manage to stick the top.
A project for my next session.
#bouldering #bloc #escalade #climbing #totem #totemmeyrin

#retraites #reformedesretraites #suspension #Macron #Borne #Lecornu #negociations #retraitea64ans #PartiSocialiste #LesVerts #PartiCommuniste #gauche #1erMinistre #totem #DessinDePresse #dessin

Totemismus

(Theile) Der Totemismus ist durch seine bald religiösen, bald sozialen Vorschriften gleichsam die eiserne Klammer, die ein Naturvolk zusammenschließt. Das Totem ist in der Regel ein Tier, ein gefürchtetes oder ein harmloses. Seltener wird eine Pflanze, ein Stein oder ein Naturvorgang wie der Regen – spätes Echo der Verehrung der Naturerscheinungen – zum Totem gewählt. Wie in unserer Fastnachtsmaske die Gewalt der Dämonenmaske nachzittert, so  die Macht des Totems in unserem Wappentier. Für die Naturvölker ist die Beziehung Mensch und Tier noch ganz nahe und natürlich. Bei den Ewe in Afrika sprechen die Götter zu Menschen und Tieren wie Gleichberechtigte. Die Ewe sind überzeugt, daß auch die Tiere den Göttern Opfer bringen. Anders als die Ewe (und ähnliche Stämme) erleben die Indianer Nordwestamerikas ihre Bindung an das Tier. Auf monumentalen Totempfählen aus Zedernholz türmen sie Mensch und Tier zu grotesker Ornamentik. So eindrucksvoll sich die Kunst des Totemtiers bemächtigt hat, sein ursprünglicher Schutz ist bei den Indianern erloschen wie der Glaube, der noch wach war bei den Ewe, das Totemtier sei ihnen geschwisterlich nahe. Die Indianer zögern nicht, es zu töten und zu verspeisen.

#Afrika #Ewe #Kultur #Natur #Opfer #Theile #Tiere #Totem #Totemismus #Totemtier

My musical career is part of a committed artistic approach, at the crossroads of the intimate and the political. My main objective is to build a singular sound universe, both introspective and immersive, that gives voice to realities that are often marginalized: disability, psychological suffering, hypersensitivity, identity struggles.

#narrative #midnight #totem #shamanic #rituel #deep #electronicmusic #live

:blackcat: :nes_fire: Party Sticker Totem

#gsnag #guerrillastickers #noadesivigrazie #sticker #stickers #stickerslap #stickerslaps #stickerart #party #totem #luigimangione #freeluigimangione

Very modern setting, but a nice exercise for swing dynos. It was easier than I feared! This isn't really my comfort zone 😅

#escalade #climbing #bouldering #bloc #totem #totem_meyrin

Very modern setting, but a nice exercise for swing dynos. It was easier than I feared! This isn't really my comfort zone 😅

#escalade #climbing #bouldering #bloc #totem #totem_meyrin

Totem Picks Up Buzzy Sexually Candid Open Relationship Comedy ‘Follies,’ Bound for Locarno (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Global #News #LocarnoFilmFestival #Totem

https://variety.com/2025/film/global/totem-eric-k-boulianne-follies-locarno-festival-1236465509/

Totem Picks Up Buzzy Sexually Candid Open Relationship Comedy ‘Follies,’ Bound for Locarno (EXCLUSIVE)
#Variety #Global #News #LocarnoFilmFestival #Totem

https://variety.com/2025/film/global/totem-eric-k-boulianne-follies-locarno-festival-1236465509/