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In his book Modern Madness: The Hidden link between Work and Emotional Conflict, Douglas Labier asks some fundamental questions about the relationship between the mental health of employees and the health of organizations in which they work.
 
For example: What type of organizational environments are workers being encouraged (forced) to adapt to?  What are the implications for society when a maladaptive individual can flourish in a poisoned work environment while an adjusted individual is diminished mentally, emotionally and physically by the same work environment?

Ten years ago a most remarkable thing happened on Toronto radio; Canada's first "urban music" -- read "black" -- radio station was launched. 
 
There was a huge party in downtown Toronto with hundreds of happy people and thousands more listening to the live broadcast at home (I was among them) as Bob Marley's "Roots, Rock, Reggae” signed-on FLOW 93.5 FM.
 
It was a poignant and ironic choice of music to launch a station that had struggled to be born in one of the most competitive media markets in North America in the most multi-cultural city in the world.