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Something horrible is coming towards us…
ASSUMPTION Let’s assume there’s something horrible coming towards us. A perfect catastrophe. Something, which would take our jobs away and force our children and grandchildren to move away from here....
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Kill Your Business to Keep it Alive! Organisational Implosion for...
Kill Your Ideas Early In a blog post by Peter Diamandis last weekend, he gave some hot tips on how to organise creativity. The advice is based on his work with semi-secret R&D facility Google X,...
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A Stakeholder Model for the 21st Century
Who’s left out? Every time we create a stakeholder model we exclude someone or something. We consciously or unconsciously decide that only some groups have something at stake – are holders of stakes,...
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The Holiday-Break-Sense-Making Experiment
Over the Christmas / New Year break I decided to do an experiment. Instead of aimlessly throwing out things that interested and excited me online (retweet them, post them on to my Facebook wall etc), I...
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Understanding our Actions
In the normal era (now past), the reason for most our actions was clear before and while we did them. In this new post-normal era, the reason for most our actions will only be understood in hindsight....
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Chaos and Order in Living Systems
A question for systems geeks out there… I’m thinking about the relations of various bubbles we live in. A bubble with a living system within another living system. I am a living system of cells and...
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Our Antipathy
I haven’t written anything about the Syrian migrant crisis which have fragmented Europe this year. I wrote about the EU, its borders and potential to bring the local and global together, but beyond...
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Do We Need More Professional People?
A while ago I tweeted the following: Sometimes people tell me I should be more professional. But I don’t think more professional people is a thing that’s good for our planet. Professional people get...
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Three Scenarios for the Future of Capitalism
We currently see many articles about the the evils of capitalism, the end of capitalism and possible post-capitalism futures. I was invited to talk at the One Planet Anti-Conference a couple of weeks...
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An Experiment with Living Labs
What is a Living Lab? For about three months we in the enkel collective, a group of Western Australian changemakers, have explored the potential to set up three so-called ‘living labs’. “A living lab...
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Some thoughts on the European Union project after the Greek NO vote
Some thoughts on the European Union project after the Greek NO vote: 1. I voted YES to the European Union myself in the Swedish referendum in 1994. At the time, with the knowledge and understanding of...
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The death of the social entrepreneur?
Norwegian peace researcher, sociologist and mathematician Johan Galtung has invented a method called TRANSCEND for conflict transformation by peaceful means. According to Galtung (and Wikipedia);...
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This weeks discovery: Work is nowhere to be found in Maslow’s hierarchy!
I’m revisiting Maslow’s hierarchy. And I realise this: Work is nowhere to be found in Maslow’s hierarchy! And I also realise what an incredible challenge this is for us in the Western developed world....
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Six ingredients for better schools
Recently I came across two things which I felt are very important in our work to make education better. Whether we work within the existing education systems or outside it, I think it’s worth...
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The in-between era
This image is from a recent Harvard Business Review article. It nicely illustrates the polarization of values in “new” and “old” paradigm organisations: The right hand column in the image is what we...
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Injecting the Future
The image here illustrates a model for change we discussed over the weekend in the local Western Australian Future of Learning and Education event for the 3rd Global Education Hackathon. On the x-axis...
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Intrapreneurs Build Better Typewriters
I recently wrote about the current slow death of the institution. It’s increasingly obvious that the efficiencies we humans have gained in using institutions (to create scale, while minimizing...
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Where To From Here? Why Strategy in 2014 is so difficult.
The image here was used for a recent Meetup for Stockholm Futurists. It’s a graphic representation of futurist Jim Dator’s four alternative futures archetypes; continuation (a.k.a. growth,...
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Four Scenarios for Humanity Based on Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards’...
Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones is known as a rock’n’roll survivor. Unlike mythologized stars like Janis, Jimi, Jim, Kurt and Amy, who all died young, Keith is still with us. And not only that:...
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Test yourself: Male happiness – Suffering Sultans of Swing…
BACKGROUND Inspired by Daniel Levinson’s “The Seasons of a Man’s Life”, I am working on a framework for male development with a complementing psychometric test I call “Suffering Sultans of Swing”. The...
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