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A Journal from the End of Times
In this article Grant J Riley, author of ‘A Journal from the End of Times’ touches on his journey and journal. First of all, thank you to Giles Hutchins for posting this article about my book. I met...
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Embracing Systemic Thinking for our Firms of the Future
Many experts now point to a Great Transition unfolding at multi-dimensional levels, locally and globally in business and society. One important aspect of this transition is our corporate logic – the...
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One step beyond fire-fighting, is the ignition of a cultural metamorphosis –...
Much vital energy is expended putting out fires while overlooking the need to change the mind-set that causes the fires in the first place. And so, while important patching up and repairing is...
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What’s next for our human family?
I was recently asked this question while being interviewed in London for a short film. Here is my response: Amid these times of great upheaval and challenge we are midwifing the birthing of our...
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Hot off the Press: Becoming Future Fit Today
The 20th century ‘organisation-as-machine’ metaphor is giving way to the 21st century ‘organisation-as-living-systems’ metaphor. And this shift is not just metaphoric but metamorphic, affecting all...
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An Artful Inquiry into a Deeper Ecology of Business
Five o’clock in the morning and the sky’s already an awesome array of vibrant pinks, oranges and mellow yellows. Rainbow-tinted fluffy clouds gently clearing away to reveal what becomes a gloriously...
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Going With The Flow: From control-based hierarchies (fear) to energy-based...
The other weekend I had the pleasure of co-hosting a Hackathon/Inquiry with a group of millennials, domain experts, media specialists and cultural catalysts. The Inquiry being hacked was: ‘How to...
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Radical Creativity – The Way Nature Intended
Traditionally, creative thinking has been seen as the province of artists and other ‘creatives’. Yet, we are all born with minds-bodies-souls capable of enormous creativity. As the Sri Lankan art...
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Re-inventing the organisation
This is a story of how the ‘nice to have’ human aspects of the business are really the ‘need to have’. It’s a story of how a company (edge talents aka ‘edge’) was re-invented into a deliberately...
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It’s Time to Become Future Fit Today
In times of turmoil, the danger lies not in the turmoil but in facing it with yesterday’s logic Increasing volatility, complexity and uncertainty is the new norm, hence our organizations need to be...
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Cultivating Our Leadership of the Future
Over the last few weeks I have had the pleasure of engaging with a great variety of senior business leaders from a range of organisations, and I have been struck by the consistency of the challenge...
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Deep Listening – listening with our whole-selves while connecting to Source:
The ability to listen is an essential human quality; it catalyses our ability to be wise, is foundational to the quality of our relationships, and is core to how we manifest our Purpose in the world....
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Meditations on respectful relationships
‘Continuing to do what we are currently doing but doing it harder or smarter is not likely to produce very different outcomes. Real change starts with recognising that we are part of the systems we...
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The Evolution of The Living Organization
Every generation experiences significant change due to innovations, disruptions and shifting perspectives. Yet there has been more significant change in the last 50 years than in the previous...
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It’s Time to Get Radical and Confront our Problems
Arguably, we have lost our way, cutting ourselves adrift from our sense of place and purpose in the world. Cue the contagion of consumerism, the polarisation of politics and the ecocide of our...
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Soul Business for a World in Transition
‘What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.’ Richard Bach, author Since the industrial revolution, we have achieved great feats of economic, social and...
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Welcome to the Paradigm Shift of the Century
The way we relate with ourselves, each other and the world around us is metamorphosing in front of our very eyes. ‘A paradigm can be thought of as a constellation of concepts, values, perceptions and...
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Meditations on Attuning with the Rhythms of Life: Panarchy, Poiesis and Presence
‘The purpose of life is to live in agreement with Nature.’ Zeno, Greek philosopher, c500BC ‘He who is harmony with Nature hits the mark without effort and apprehends the truth without thinking.’...
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Co-Creating An Organisational Shift In Consciousness, By Giles Hutchins
It is now patently clear to many leaders and change agents in business that for our organisations to thrive in these times of fast-paced volatility, they need to shift their organisational...
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Future Fit Leading: Manifesting A Revolution In Consciousness
Often people ask me to explain ‘Future Fit Leadership’ to them. So here goes, a short article about just that. First, I would like to share some of the context to future-fit leadership. There is a...
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