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Feedback, Education and the Experience Economy: Can business educate?
Feedback is essential to how nature and business operate. Feedback relates to two or more interconnected systems sharing information to maintain a two-way, symbiotic relationship. Take the human body...
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Creative Destruction: Think like a Forest!
The phrase “creative destruction” has become a common one as economies and nations struggle to adjust in the aftermath of the Crash of ’08. It was Joseph Schumpeter who coined the expression to...
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The future of business – a new paradigm inspired by and in harmony with nature
The economic, social and environmental volatility now facing business means organizations having to operate in a dynamically transforming landscape. The nature of change itself is transforming....
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The Radical Redesign of Business – are you ready?
One could argue our industrial world has reached the edge of its adaptive range. We are faced with a world that in a very short period of time has gone from seemingly linear (simple) to complex and...
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Crossing the threshold – 2013: Ready for a new paradigm?
Apparently we change for two fundamental reasons: 1) We have enough information about the situation we want to change 2) We are experiencing so much pain that we have to change This ‘perfect...
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The root cause of our dis-ease is how we engage with life
Those of us who are members of the BCI network strongly believe that many of the solutions to the problems we are facing today can be found in nature. It is why we talk about ‘business inspired by...
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The age of co-operation beyond competition?
Why is ‘competition’ viewed as a key driver in business behaviour? We so often hear business leaders say that they embrace sustainability or new ways of operating because it provides ‘competitive...
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Ten Top Tips for Transformation
Prediction : At least 50% of all organisations around today will be dead or bought-out by the end of this decade. This is the Decade of Transformation – so how do we ensure our organisations survive...
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The Radical Redesign of Business – leadership and more..
Last week Alan Moore and Giles Hutchins led a weeks course on ‘The Radical Redesign of Business’ for international participants at Schumacher College as part of the three week Enterprising Futures...
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The Radical Redesigning of Business for Resilience
Can business be a force for good, restoring society and the environment, providing solutions that genuinely help rather than hurt? Ought business to be striving for more than just limiting its harm? I...
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The companies of the future should look to the natural world to learn how to...
In times of pressing challenges such as the current perfect storm of social, economic and environmental volatility, great courage is required to break rank from a paradigm that is ingrained in our...
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Living in dynamic harmony with nature
Nature is a co-creative receptive-responsive improvisational dance. How on Earth do we attune with it? Here is a guest blog by Nadine Andrews of Culture Probe to explore this question. Just as a...
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Are you looking to make your organisation more resilient, healthy and...
For sure! But how to achieve this in these complex, chaotic, competitive times? Who has already achieved this and what we can learn from them? Here is a guest blog by Enabling Catalysts who have been...
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Six steps to transform the way we do business
Our institutions, organisations and economies were conceived, designed and built for a simpler more linear world. Overwhelmed by complexity these have become disrupted and unsustainable. There is an...
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Leadership? The Future of Leading…the art of hosting
Is it possible to lead and be led at the same time? Might the leader be the quietest person in the room; invisible, even? What happens when there are no pre-agreed rules of engagement amongst those...
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Transform requires re-connection
It is becoming more obvious that we need to transform our ways of living and operating. ‘Today’s dominant worldview is simply too biased towards anthropocentrism, materialism, egocentrism,...
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Beyond Hierarchies – Inspired By Nature
The network has been recognised as the basic pattern of organisation in all living systems. Ecosystems in nature are essentially networks of organisms. As Fritjof Capra points out, organisms...
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The Receptive Presence of Reality – we are One yet Many
Recent discovers in Quantum physics point to matter being vibrating energy and energy being a projection within an all-pervasive field (or quantum vacuum – QV – as some refer to it as). The renowned...
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The BIG Challenge – True Sustainability – attuning with reality
In the current out-dated paradigm so often we find sustainable initiatives being bolted-on, viewed as distractions from the primary goal of the organisation (short term profit maximisation). Yet there...
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Conscious co-creative leadership: Starts with Self
Leadership starts with listening; listening with an open heart and mind. True listening comes within and through stillness. It has been rightly said before ‘The success of the intervention depends upon...
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