By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Jan 24
By Max Hong and originally published at Teal Around the World 2023 on YouTube Note from Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor: It generally starts with a crisis in an organization, he says. This is well worth your time for its fresh and zoomed-out perspective which turns out to have practical applications. 54 minutes 21 seconds Transcript available with timestamps To learn more about the upcoming Teal Around the World Conference 2025, read here. Featured Image by Gabriela Piwowarska from Pixabay[…]
By Max Hong and originally published at Teal Around the World 2023 on YouTube Note from Enlivening Edge Magazine Editor: It generally starts with a crisis in an organization, he says. This is well worth your time for its fresh and zoomed-out perspective which turns out to have practical applications. 54 minutes 21 seconds Transcript available with timestamps To
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Dec 23
Image by Kelvy BirdAs the year draws to an end and we head into 2024, I feel the need to close the feedback loop between all the challenges of 2023 and my own sensemaking. Here are three tangible things that stand out in hindsight:It has been the hottest year on record: Each month from June to November has broken previous ceilings.It has been a year of escalating polarization and conflicts: Europe (Ukraine/Russia), the Middle East (Israel/Gaza), Africa (the Sahel region, Somalia, Ethiopia), and Asia (Armenia/Azerbaijan, Korean Peninsula, South China Sea).It has been the year of AI: The arrival of generative AI is
Image by Kelvy BirdAs the year draws to an end and we head into 2024, I feel the need to close the feedback loop between all the challenges of 2023 and my own sensemaking. Here are three tangible things that stand out in hindsight:It has been the hottest year on record: Each month from June to November has broken previous ceilings.It
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 30 Dec 23
Read the article in Italian — in Traditional Chinese — in SpanishImage by Kelvy BirdAs the year draws to an end and we head into 2024, I feel the need to close the feedback loop between all the challenges of 2023 and my own sensemaking. Here are three tangible things that stand out in hindsight:It has been the hottest year on record: Each month from June to November has broken previous ceilings.It has been a year of escalating polarization and conflicts: Europe (Ukraine/Russia), the Middle East (Israel/Gaza), Africa (the Sahel region, Somalia, Ethiopia), and Asia (Armenia/Azerbaijan, Korean Peninsula, South China Sea).It has been the year of AI:
Read the article in Italian — in Traditional Chinese — in SpanishImage by Kelvy BirdAs the year draws to an end and we head into 2024, I feel the need to close the feedback loop between all the challenges of 2023 and my own sensemaking. Here are three tangible things that stand out in hindsight:It has been the hottest year on record: Each month from June
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Jun 23
By Aaron Dignan and originally published on medium.com The Ready See the book Brave New Work and this previous EE Magazine article. A new and improved tool for reinventing your organization – Part 1 Organization design is hard. Whether you’re the CEO of a global corporation, the founder of a startup, or a team leader inside one of the tens of thousands of companies that make our world turn, you’re up against one of the greatest puzzles ever conceived. We see evidence of this everywhere we look. Corporate longevity is down. Employee engagement is dismal. Leaders from every industry and
By Aaron Dignan and originally published on medium.com The Ready See the book Brave New Work and this previous EE Magazine article. A new and improved tool for reinventing your organization – Part 1 Organization design is hard. Whether you’re the CEO of a global corporation, the founder of a startup, or a team leader inside one of the tens
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 3 Jan 22
Read the article in DutchVisual by Kelvy BirdDear Friends, as we enter the new year, I would like to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and to set the intention for 2022. What did we learn in 2021? Three things stand out for me.Humility. Whatever we thought or predicted would happen in 2021 probably changed multiple times over the course of the year. Starting with the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, the accelerated impact of climate change, not to mention Delta and Omicron, time and again we saw that reality keeps changing around us. Our established concepts and ways
Read the article in DutchVisual by Kelvy BirdDear Friends, as we enter the new year, I would like to take a moment to reflect on 2021 and to set the intention for 2022. What did we learn in 2021? Three things stand out for me.Humility. Whatever we thought or predicted would happen in 2021 probably changed multiple times over the course of the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 10 Nov 21
During COP 26, as he was on route to the G20 summit, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had an extraordinary message. Civilization could collapse “like the Roman empire”, he warned, “unless we get this right in tackling climate change.” “Humanity, civilization and society can go backwards as well as forwards and when they start to go wrong, they can go wrong at extraordinary speed,” he said. The UK Prime Minister’s recognition that civilizations can experience a life cycle of growth and collapse is a milestone. But understanding what’s really driving the risk of going “backwards” is crucial to navigating our
During COP 26, as he was on route to the G20 summit, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had an extraordinary message. Civilization could collapse “like the Roman empire”, he warned, “unless we get this right in tackling climate change.” “Humanity, civilization and society can go backwards as well as forwards and when they start to go wrong, they can go
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 May 21
Ten Lessons from Covid for Stepping into the Decade of TransformationIn 1989, a few months before the Berlin Wall would collapse, I was co-leading an international student group in a program called Peace Studies Around the World that took us to East and West Berlin. In discussions with some of the leaders of the civil rights and opposition movements in East Berlin, I witnessed with my own eyes how even the very people who were on the frontlines of forces that eventually would bring down the Berlin Wall — effectively ending the cold war system — had no idea what a far-reaching impact their
Ten Lessons from Covid for Stepping into the Decade of TransformationIn 1989, a few months before the Berlin Wall would collapse, I was co-leading an international student group in a program called Peace Studies Around the World that took us to East and West Berlin. In discussions with some of the leaders of the civil rights and opposition movements in
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: 20 Mar 21
A target audience of cocreators?As part of my work with the Cocreation Foundation, I am writing a book about global cocreation. And I constantly get asked: “What is the target audience for this book?”Honestly? I don’t know! At least not in a conventional sense. I am not writing a book for a specific market or a target audience whose needs and desires I claim to know and serve. I am writing a book I feel is necessary to write because it is my contribution to the process we are in as humanity at this particular time in history.Having said that: of course,
A target audience of cocreators?As part of my work with the Cocreation Foundation, I am writing a book about global cocreation. And I constantly get asked: “What is the target audience for this book?”Honestly? I don’t know! At least not in a conventional sense. I am not writing a book for a specific market or a target audience whose needs and
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 20 Mar 21
A target audience of cocreators?As part of my work with the Cocreation Foundation, I am writing a book about global cocreation. And I constantly get asked: “What is the target audience for this book?”Honestly? I don’t know! At least not in a conventional sense. I am not writing a book for a specific market or a target audience whose needs and desires I claim to know and serve. I am writing a book I feel is necessary to write because it is my contribution to the process we are in as humanity at this particular time in history.Having said that: of course,
A target audience of cocreators?As part of my work with the Cocreation Foundation, I am writing a book about global cocreation. And I constantly get asked: “What is the target audience for this book?”Honestly? I don’t know! At least not in a conventional sense. I am not writing a book for a specific market or a target audience whose needs and