Contemplation and Organization Studies: Why contemplative activities are so crucial for our academic lives
探讨沉思在学术生活中的重要性，指出过度关注学术影响力可能扼杀沉思，并基于玛丽·奥利弗的诗句，展示组织学者如何通过沉思活动体现“关注、惊叹、讲述”的生活指南，强调沉思与同情心的内在联系及其对学者成长的作用。
Contemporary emphases on calculating the impact of our scholarship can be deadening if they lead us to refrain from contemplation. Thus, in this essay, I show the importance of contemplation and what contemplative dimensions of our scholarship might include. Based on four lines from the poem “Sometimes” by the poet Mary Oliver, I summarize ways that many activities carried out by organizational scholars embody Oliver’s “Instructions for living a life,” which consist solely of “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” My summary shows some of the range of contemplative activities within our field, as well as integral relationships between contemplation and compassion. I conclude by highlighting the importance of the roles such activities play in our experiences of academic life and in our developmental journeys as scholars.