Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Nov 18, 2020Before Being Born, Until the Day We Die, We Depend on SystemsWhilst still in the womb we are totally dependent upon the health of our mother and her biological systems. Her health is dependent upon, or influenced by, a whole host of other systems which vary in many ways depending on the place she happens to live. The experience of giving…Systems Thinking11 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Sep 29, 2020Our 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…Leadership5 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Sep 28, 2020We have a fundamentally flawed model of capitalism perpetuated by extremely bad proxies that were foisted upon us by deluded economists.In 1997 Marilyn Strathern, an anthropologist, restated what has been called Goodhart’s law with the adage, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” The adage says that all metrics of scientific evaluation are bound to be abused. …Capitalism6 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Sep 27, 2020Smart 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…Innovation10 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Sep 24, 2020Corporations 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…Finance12 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Sep 10, 2020How 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…Values11 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Sep 8, 2020The Imperative of Diversity — Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom: Part 2This 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…Diversity8 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Sep 2, 2020Smart People Are a Dime a Dozen. What Counts is Being Creative and ImaginativeThe collective writings of Jeff Bezos, with a foreword by Walter Isaacson, will be published on 17th November this year by Harvard…Amazon4 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Aug 31, 2020The Imperative of Diversity — Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom: Part 1This 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…Diversity12 min read
Published in Enlightened Enterprise Academy·Aug 27, 2020Beyond the Precipice With a 21st Century Theory of Moral SentimentsIn 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…Sustainability4 min read