Yesterday, our STS community considered the ecosystem within which individuals, organizations and networks live and work. Both the implications of New Economics and Big Data were addressed relative to the impacts on our own emerging experience of Big Design. That…
We glimpsed a very inspiring future yesterday during the Equitable Food Initiative’s (EFI) presentation. The presenters demonstrated the collaboration power of their emerging ecosystem — major food buyers, growers, farm workers and consumer advocates — in growing safer food and…
Europeans, Americans and Canadians kicked off their 2013 Discovery Roundtable with a hearty discussion of what constitutes humane, healthy, innovative communities of work. Although cultural interpretations varied in the language used, shared understanding culminated around what “ennobles individuals and acts…
Lately, wherever I find myself in dialogue with organizational clients or colleagues, the conversation eventually turns to the desire to be in like-minded community. As social beings, we find ourselves working and playing in a variety of f2f and online…
From my own experience with addictive behaviour such as smoking, over-achieving, and pursuing money, I recognize how obsessive dependency on any thing or person enslaved me and distracted me from a healthy whole life. In coming to understand my addictions,…
In two recent conversations with social entrepreneurs (of which I include myself) we lamented the challenge of doing business in an economic environment where surviving is yet to be balanced with thriving. The survival game amounts to business entrepreneurs manipulating…
Over the past week, my thoughts have circled around three topics — • the state of masculinity and male conduct, • the social conundrum of when and how to intervene in another person’s life, and • the one simple action…
Last week in Peace is Possible: A New Tipping Point I wrote that our parents’ generation (for those remaining baby boomers) was taxed with transforming war and violence into peace and compassion. On the whole, society has made incremental progress in reducing…
In his 1993 novel, The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield articulated the following Nine Insights as significant for the then current global experience. A spiritual awakening in human culture, which has been brought about by a critical mass of individuals led…
When Canadians celebrate the birth of our nation, which is considered part of the free world, in truth, we are celebrating our political and spiritual freedom. Although we might take these freedoms for granted, freedom from oppression in our working…
Democracy is defined both as representative (elected) governance and governance by the people, which implies a desired sense of freedom and autonomy by its electorate. Traditionally, the world’s democratic nations, whether socialist or capitalist, opted for representative democracy rather than…
As leaders in our own lives, our greatest challenge is to own our negative behaviour rather than hold others responsible for what we think, feel or do. No one, I repeat, no one can make us think, say or do…
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