From Confused to Catalyst Right now, we are facing multiple challenges that will yield a variety of threats and opportunities. They are classic “Wicked” challenges – they are multi faceted, linked and adapt as they are tackled. There are no neat, packaged linear solutions, just agile actions from which we can learn through success andContinue reading “Catalysts – Weaving the Future”
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Creating Catalysts of the Future
We are made from what came before. We make ourselves out of the promises that lie ahead. And we are always in the process of becoming. Jacquline Novogratz. Manifesto for a Moral Revolution. The elements of change build up, little by little and seem to be just minor changes on what was true yesterday. AContinue reading “Creating Catalysts of the Future”
Uncertainty, Catalysts and AntiFragility.
“How did you go bankrupt?”Two ways. Gradually, then Suddenly” Ernest Hemingway, The Sun also Rises We can’t go over it,We can’t go under it.Oh no!We’ve got to go through it! Michael Rosen. Going on a Bear Hunt. From local bonfires to global forest fire What’s happening has been happening gradually for a while. Sparks fallingContinue reading “Uncertainty, Catalysts and AntiFragility.”
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
I read quite a lot, and I tend to jot down in a notebook phrases that strike me from the books I get through. On the latest of our regular Originize Zoom meetings on Friday night I shared one of these phrase and it generated a bit of interest so I thought I’d expand onContinue reading “SPEAKING IN TONGUES”
Reality
Everything has a cycle. It comes into existence and if it makes it past the early stages, blossoms, then declines, then dies and contributes to a new existence. It’s true of everything in the natural world. We do not seem to think about organisations, and their systems in the same way. From businesses looking forContinue reading “Reality”
Clarity
If we had an “emotionometer” right now, today here in the UK it would be off the charts. We have thousands of students being graded on a basis cobbled together by people in difficult circumstances who appear to be slaves to a system. There will be joy, heartbreak and anger. Why? Of course it’s difficult.Continue reading “Clarity”
The Machine Part Fallacy
Right now, huge amounts of effort, airtime and emotion are being expended over how fair the exam results are for our children who have not been able to sit formal exams due to the disruption caused by our reactions to COVID. We are obsessed by how this years results might compare to last years results,Continue reading “The Machine Part Fallacy”
Effortless Beauty
It turns out that what drives us is not that much different from what drives every other organism on the planet – and probably beyond. We crave connection to others – to be part of a group, at the same time as we crave autonomy – the freedom to make our own decisions. Resolving thisContinue reading “Effortless Beauty”
Be careful what you own
We have a strange relationship with ownership. We talk casually, and with pride about the house we own, the car we own, the company we own. There’s a Buddhist exhortation to be careful about what we own, because often it will end up owning us. No matter the legal niceties, if we have used debtContinue reading “Be careful what you own”
Flexing the Courage Muscle
The inspiration for this blog came from a zoom call orchestrated by Richard Merrick last Friday called Setting Conversations Free. During the conversation the idea that our fears are holding us back cropped up a few times, and there were a couple of phrases from Roz Savage, one of the participants, that stuck with me.Continue reading “Flexing the Courage Muscle”
