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Before Being Born Until the Day We Die, We Depend on Systems

Even before we are born our lives depend on systems. And from the day we are born until the day we die we depend on them.

11 min readNov 18, 2020

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Before Being Born Until the Day We Die, We Depend on Systems

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Paul Barnett
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Enlightened Enterprise Academy

Our Leaders Need To Be Mavericks: Unorthodox Thinkers Familiar With Protean Power And How To Use It.

Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain World and Unexpected in World Politics is part of a series of books published by Cambridge…

5 min readSep 29, 2020

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Our Leaders Need To Be Mavericks: Unorthodox Thinkers Familiar With Protean Power And How To Use It.

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Paul Barnett
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Enlightened Enterprise Academy

We have a fundamentally flawed model of capitalism perpetuated by extremely bad proxies that were…

In 1997 Marilyn Strathern, an anthropologist, restated what has been called Goodhart’s law with the adage, “When a measure becomes a…

6 min readSep 28, 2020

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We have a fundamentally flawed model of capitalism perpetuated by extremely bad proxies that were…

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Paul Barnett
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Enlightened Enterprise Academy

Smart People Are A Dime a Dozen. What Counts Is Having A Builder’s Mentality.

On September 2nd in “Smart People Are A Dime A Dozen. What Counts Is Being Creative And Imaginative”, I said I had started reading Invent…

10 min readSep 27, 2020

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Smart People Are A Dime a Dozen. What Counts Is Having A Builder’s Mentality.

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Paul Barnett
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Corporations Don’t Represent Our Ultimate interest as their owners, their employees and customers.”

This is part one of a two-part review of Accountable: How We Can Save Capitalism by Michael O’Leary & Warren Valdmanis (Penguin Business…

12 min readSep 24, 2020

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Corporations Don’t Represent Our Ultimate interest as their owners, their employees and customers.”

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Paul Barnett
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Enlightened Enterprise Academy

How Do We Create A New System of Value?

Just published is the latest Blueprint from r3.0 an organisation that “promotes Redesign for Resilience and Regeneration.” As “a global…

11 min readSep 10, 2020

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How Do We Create A New System of Value?

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Paul Barnett
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The Imperative of Diversity — Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom: Part 2

This is the second a two-part review (part one) of Matthew Syed’s book Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking. It was first published…

8 min readSep 8, 2020

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The Imperative of Diversity — Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom: Part 2

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Paul Barnett
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Enlightened Enterprise Academy

Smart People Are a Dime a Dozen. What Counts is Being Creative and Imaginative

The collective writings of Jeff Bezos, with a foreword by Walter Isaacson, will be published on 17th November this year by Harvard…

4 min readSep 2, 2020

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Smart People Are a Dime a Dozen. What Counts is Being Creative and Imaginative

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Paul Barnett
in
Enlightened Enterprise Academy

The Imperative of Diversity: Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom

This is the first part of a two-part review of Matthew Syed’s book Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking. It was first published in…

12 min readAug 31, 2020

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The Imperative of Diversity: Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom

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Paul Barnett
in
Enlightened Enterprise Academy

Beyond the Precipice With a 21st Century Theory of Moral Sentiments

In his latest book The Ages of Globalization (which I will get around to reading and reviewing as soon as I can) Jeffrey Sachs argues that…

4 min readAug 27, 2020

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Beyond the Precipice With a 21st Century Theory of Moral Sentiments

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Paul Barnett

Paul Barnett

Advocating the purpose of all enterprise should be contributions to sustainable widely shared prosperity measured in terms of human flourishing and wellbeing.

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