By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 31 Mar 21
In ancient Jerusalem there was a gate called the Eye of the Needle which was so narrow that when a fully loaded camel approached it, all the bundles had to be removed so that the camel could pass through. Referring to this well-known image of his day, Jesus said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”This is what comes to mind as I contemplate images of the Ever Given stuck in the Suez Canal. Fully loaded with containers on their way from Asia
In ancient Jerusalem there was a gate called the Eye of the Needle which was so narrow that when a fully loaded camel approached it, all the bundles had to be removed so that the camel could pass through. Referring to this well-known image of his day, Jesus said, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Oct 20
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn. How to Transform Trumpism After Trump: On Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, and Post-Humanity.The US election next week feels like a planetary watershed moment, with implications well beyond the United States. This moment has an exterior and an interior dimension. The exterior dimension is a referendum on the occupant of the White House. But a change there will not on its own change much. The interior dimension is a change in the heart — a change in the inner place that we operate from as we move forward in this critical decade.Figure 1: Three Conditions of Trumpism, Three
The Darkest Hour Is Just Before the Dawn. How to Transform Trumpism After Trump: On Post-Truth, Post-Democracy, and Post-Humanity.The US election next week feels like a planetary watershed moment, with implications well beyond the United States. This moment has an exterior and an interior dimension. The exterior dimension is a referendum on the occupant of the White House. But a
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 24 Jul 20
Authentic Stories in the WorkplaceOn the importance of systems-change leaders bringing their whole selves to work.Photo by Toa Heftiba on UnsplashIn many organisational settings, there is an unspoken agreement of separation between self and work. It was long assumed, in management and organisational theory, that what was going on at home or a person’s experiences outside of work, had no bearing on their ability to run a company, be a good employee, or foster a healthy team culture. Or that they shouldn’t. The occasional exception might have been telling a personal story or anecdote that was of direct relevance to a particular
Authentic Stories in the WorkplaceOn the importance of systems-change leaders bringing their whole selves to work.Photo by Toa Heftiba on UnsplashIn many organisational settings, there is an unspoken agreement of separation between self and work. It was long assumed, in management and organisational theory, that what was going on at home or a person’s experiences outside of work, had no bearing on
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 4 Jul 20
We are living in a world in which it is a given that one should not bother caring about things that cannot be changed.Continue reading on Medium »
We are living in a world in which it is a given that one should not bother caring about things that cannot be changed.Continue reading on Medium »
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 21 May 20
Read the article in Spanish — in Traditional Chinese — in German — in Italian — in JapaneseVisual by Kelvy BirdThree weeks ago, I posted some reflections on what we are learning from corona and climate action. Given that post’s wide circulation (150K+ views), I wanted to share a quick update. The concluding idea of the post — to launch an impromptu, global infrastructure for leaning into our current moment of disruption and letting this moment move us toward civilizational renewal — has quickly taken shape.GAIA — Global Activation of Intention and Action — was implemented only twelve days after a small core team first came up with the idea. Within twelve days, 10,000+ had signed up for this
Read the article in Spanish — in Traditional Chinese — in German — in Italian — in JapaneseVisual by Kelvy BirdThree weeks ago, I posted some reflections on what we are learning from corona and climate action. Given that post’s wide circulation (150K+ views), I wanted to share a quick update. The concluding idea of the post — to launch an impromptu, global infrastructure for leaning into our current moment of disruption
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 9 Apr 20
Read the article in Spanish — in French — in German — in Italian — in Portuguese — in Traditional Chinese — in Polish — in Vietnamese — in Simplified Chinese part 1 & part 2Checking the temperature of a passenger arriving at the international airport in Hong Kong. The city, like Singapore and Taiwan, has made headway in containing Covid-19. (Ph. credit: Hannah Mckay/Reuters)As 100 million people in Europe are in lockdown, the US seems to be completely unprepared for the tsunami that is about to hit. “We’re about to experience the worst public health disaster since polio,” says Dr Martin Makary, professor at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health. “Don’t believe the numbers
Read the article in Spanish — in French — in German — in Italian — in Portuguese — in Traditional Chinese — in Polish — in Vietnamese — in Simplified Chinese part 1 & part 2Checking the temperature of a passenger arriving at the international airport in Hong Kong. The city, like Singapore and Taiwan, has made headway in containing Covid-19. (Ph. credit: Hannah Mckay/Reuters)As 100 million people in Europe are in lockdown, the US seems to
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 26 Mar 20
Researcher Daniel Schmachtenber lays out how COVID-19 is giving us all a crash-course in systemic risk. It may be the wake-up call we need.Continue reading on Rebel Wisdom »
Researcher Daniel Schmachtenber lays out how COVID-19 is giving us all a crash-course in systemic risk. It may be the wake-up call we need.Continue reading on Rebel Wisdom »
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Mar 20
Nora BatesonContinue reading on Medium »
Nora BatesonContinue reading on Medium »
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 5 Feb 20
Global Climate Action III: The Power of ConsciousnessThe first two articles in this three-part series explored two blind spots in the response to global climate change: soil and democracy. The third one is consciousness.Figure 11 — Leverage Point No. 3: ConsciousnessIn January, I spent a weekend with 300 biodynamic farmers in northern Germany. The topic of the gathering was Creating from Nothing. The topic struck a chord with me. For one, it resonated with questions I’ve seen asked in many contexts: How do we move beyond marginal innovation that only modifies the patterns of the past, to one that truly creates something
Global Climate Action III: The Power of ConsciousnessThe first two articles in this three-part series explored two blind spots in the response to global climate change: soil and democracy. The third one is consciousness.Figure 11 — Leverage Point No. 3: ConsciousnessIn January, I spent a weekend with 300 biodynamic farmers in northern Germany. The topic of the gathering was Creating from Nothing.
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Jun 19
Thinking in terms of complex potential states instead of complex adaptive systems may be helpful in our timesSomething about the epistemological foundations of complex adaptive systems has been bothering me. It is very hard to think of complex systems without framing agency in the context of adaptation — in complexity science we see it everywhere. This alone is cause for suspicion, since when certain descriptions of reality are seen everywhere we look, it most likely means that the description is a feature of a limiting paradigm, an epistemological boundary, as it were, rather than a feature of the world. Buzz Holling, for example,
Thinking in terms of complex potential states instead of complex adaptive systems may be helpful in our timesSomething about the epistemological foundations of complex adaptive systems has been bothering me. It is very hard to think of complex systems without framing agency in the context of adaptation — in complexity science we see it everywhere. This alone is cause for suspicion, since when