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The Dance of Life – reciprocating tensions

Nature is continually unfolding in a process of transforming what is forming. The Latin root of the word nature is natura which means ‘to give birth’, to creatively become. This creative reaching...

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2015 – a metamorphosis in our midst

We are now settling into 2015 – transformational times no less which quite naturally invoke a feeling of trepidation. Tectonic shifts in our socio-economic models, strategic and operational management...

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Creating constructive futures in business and beyond

Business strategist, Peter Senge, notes that our world today is shaped not by individuals alone but by networks of businesses and institutions, and that these organisations are currently grounded in an...

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Seeing Beyond The Veil – Transforming my inner-outer life

Having spent many years advising a variety of public, private and third sector organisations on business transformation and latterly sustainability, I embarked on a life transition directed by my love...

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Activating the Ancient Yet Fresh Wisdom of the Heart In Business

Either first- or second-hand we know of the power of authentic small-group discussion. Yet how often do we give ourselves the space and time to allow for this in our hectic schedules. In our relentless...

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Embracing Natural Wisdom in a Volatile World

The transformational times in our midst demand that organisations redesign for resilience in order to flourish in the volatile times ahead. The most important challenge facing leaders, strategists and...

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Right to the heart of the matter – right where illusion starts…

There is a profound shift underway in our cultural story, sense of purpose and organisational logic.  Deep and complex influences within our own psyche, our collective consciousness and in the...

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The time has come to reawaken our humanity

It is easy to blame societal and environmental ills on powerful elites, big business, greedy bankers, corrupt politicians and corporate fat cats; perhaps easier still to blame it all on the ‘system’....

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Steps Towards a Deeper Ecology of Business

There is much to be downbeat about these days: Whether it’s the daily drip feed of fear-filled news from around the world, or the woeful state of our debt-based economies closer to home relentlessly...

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Awakening the Sacred: Re-enchanting Our Ways of Relating

We are living through a crucial time where we bear witness to a profound opening between two worldviews, that of yesterday’s story, scientific mind-set and socio-economic behaviour and the emerging...

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Accessing the Mind of Nature (Part One)

We are in the midst of an evolutionary step change in how we operate and organise: a shift from linear, mechanistic, control-based modes toward living, emergent, self-organising, life-affirming ways....

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Redesigning for Resilience – Firms of the Future

Since the Industrial Revolution, we have achieved great feats of economic, social and technological advancement for which, as a species, we can be proud. Yet the challenges (and opportunities) now...

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Time to stand up for what we believe to be right

What our world needs right now is an awakening of our humanity . If we are honest with ourselves we spend a large part of our waking lives half asleep, largely unconscious or unaware of reality as it...

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Activating the new paradigm while transcending yesterday’s logic

‘In times of turmoil, the danger lies not in the turmoil, but in facing it with yesterday’s logic’ – Peter Drucker Yesterday’s logic is founded upon the illusion of separation created by the objectify...

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Steps Towards A Deeper Way of Life

Linear thinking and its rationalising objectification provides an important tool for us, helping us abstract our thinking from the here-and-now for analysis, planning, forecasting, scientific empirical...

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Catalyzing the Great Turning by Re-membering the Mind of Nature

In 1984 E.O.Wilson’s ‘biophilia hypothesis’ brought the West’s scientific attention to the psychical, as well as physical, inter-relation we have with Nature: humans have a deep urge to love our fellow...

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Times Like These Beckon Us Beyond The Surface Into The Deep

There are a multitude of factors contributing to these winds of change blowing through our times. Describing these turbulent, transformative times is the now trendy managerial acronym VUCA (Volatile...

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Breaking Through the Other Side

Oh, what a night: champagne upon arrival, a bubbling hot tub in the garden bar and great live music, all set within the urban-chic surrounds of Proud Camden. Like any atmospheric event, the venue,...

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A Better Way of Doing Business

Much of today’s organisational management mind-set (whether corporate, non-profit, government institution or start-up) is rooted in a flawed logic about how the world works. ‘We have been, and still...

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Welcome to the Millennial Age

The next ten years shall bear witness to social businesses outperforming traditional businesses in a big way, and the reason for this can be summed up in one word… millennials.   Over half the world’s...

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