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·Nov 18, 2020

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

Whilst 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 Thinking

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

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·Sep 29, 2020

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…

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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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·Sep 28, 2020

We 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. …

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

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·Sep 27, 2020

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…

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

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·Sep 24, 2020

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…

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

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·Sep 10, 2020

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…

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How Do We Create A New System of Value?

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·Sep 8, 2020

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…

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

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·Sep 2, 2020

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…

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

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·Aug 31, 2020

The Imperative of Diversity — Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom: Part 1

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…

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The Imperative of Diversity: Collective Blindness to Collective Wisdom

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·Aug 27, 2020

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…

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

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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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