“When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the … Read More
Reasons to be Cheerful(ish)
Leadership
A Brain of Two Halves
“If I am right, that the story of the Western world is one of increasing left hemisphere domination, we would … Read More
Complexity, Emergence and Creativity
I’ve been thinking about emergence a lot recently. It’s the theme of the event that I’m curating, TEDxStroudWomen (which is … Read More
Reality, Russian Dolls, Rocks and Ripples
I’ve written before about Don Hoffman’s book, The Case Against Reality, and you might want to read that blog post … Read More
A Paradise Built in Hell
In A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster, Rebecca Solnit looks at how people responded … Read More
If You’re Not Living On The Edge…
“Evil can hide in systems much more readily than in individuals.” Richard Rohr writes this in reference to Francis and … Read More
Question Thinking: From Judging to Learning
In the introduction to Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, author Marilee Adams writes: “Questions open our minds, our eyes, … Read More
Team of Teams
A book on military strategy may not seem like an obvious place to find a model for the future of … Read More
Decommodify Power
commodification noun, often disapproving the fact that something is treated or considered as a commodity (= a product that can be bought and sold) This article about defunding the police in the US got … Read More
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