Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyBefore Being Born Until the Day We Die, We Depend on SystemsEven 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 read·Nov 18, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyOur 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 read·Sep 29, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyWe 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 read·Sep 28, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademySmart 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 read·Sep 27, 2020--1--1
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyCorporations 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 read·Sep 24, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyHow 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 read·Sep 10, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyThe 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…8 min read·Sep 8, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademySmart 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…4 min read·Sep 2, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyThe Imperative of Diversity: Collective Blindness to Collective WisdomThis 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 read·Aug 31, 2020----
Paul BarnettinEnlightened Enterprise AcademyBeyond 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…4 min read·Aug 27, 2020----