What Lies Beneath?
It’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? What gifts lie at the core of our essence buried beneath the layers of life fused into reflections staring back from a mirror? If I can answer this one do you suppose it…
From Paradigms to Paradoxes – The CONSCIOUSNESS Continuum
So much of our human experience in the new millennium is attributed to the rapid pace of change brought about by both the industrial and technological revolutions of the past century. There is no doubt of their significant impact on…
From Paradigms to Paradoxes – The CHANGE Continuum
For most of my professional career, I willingly set aside three to five days a year to meet with my STS-RT (Socio-technical Systems Roundtable) colleagues. The STS-RT is a “global network of business leaders, action researchers, trade unionists, academics, managers…
From Paradigms to Paradoxes – The CULTURE Continuum
Continuing my investigation of paradoxes and paradigms, today I write about culture as the third of ten paradigms from the past. My theory is these paradigms are currently presenting as paradoxes or contradictions which are significantly influencing our behaviour and…
Converging Business, Technology a-n-d Social Systems for Sustainable Success
The Business Technology Management group on LinkedIn recently posted an Amazon review of The Power of Convergence: Linking Business Strategies and Technology Decisions to Create Sustainable Success (Hoque, F., L. Walsh, D. L. Mirakaj, & J. Bruckner (2011). As an…
From Paradigms to Paradoxes – The INFORMATION Continuum
Last week I committed to writing about the global trends futurists consider when studying humanities’ ways of seeing and being in the world. For each global trend, we look for its pattern of behaviour as well as its anticipated direction…
Mining the Soul by Penning the Truth
As you may have guessed by some of my previous blogs, my transformational practices are an eclectic mix of writing, meditation and yoga with writing being my first self-discovery tool. For a simple illustration of writing’s ever-seductive, truth-telling quality, I…
From Paradigms to Paradoxes – The MOTIVATION Continuum
In the spirit of collaboration, currently I am developing a global trends model titled From Paradigms to Paradoxes. A paradigm is a typical pattern, model or worldview of a particular subject. For example, when considering the subject of motivation, we…
Meditation – Mind Altering without Drugs
Meditation is a practice aimed at strengthening concentration and stilling the mind. Interestingly, no one counters me with, “Why would I want to stop my mind?” We seem intuitively to understand this ancient wellness practice provides many benefits. In fact,…
True Power is Letting Go
In 1609, Francis Bacon declared, “Knowledge is power; the more one knows the more one can control events.” Four hundred years later, I would venture to say that this is no longer viewed as a universal truth. What has changed? …
COLLABORATE to Create
Several years ago, I began a consulting journey integrating IT systems with social and business systems. I could see the “writing on the wall.” As participants in today’s economy, the majority of us are knowledge workers. In essence, we…
Confusion and Uncertainty – Where Creativity Begins
Today, my head is swirling with seemingly disparate thoughts. I lay out these thoughts in a mind map and now await the rush of energy that accompanies their coming together. I start writing knowing the sight of words on a…