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Bewilderment ~ Rumi
There are many guises for intelligence.
One part of you is gliding in a high windstream,
while your more ordinary notions
take little steps and peck at the ground.
Conventional knowledge is death to our souls,
and it is not really ours. It is … Continue reading
FollowCulturesphere in Audio & Video ~ Wade Davis
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World ~ Wade Davis A Seminar on Long-Term Thinking talk on the “cultureshphere”, the rich diversity of language and culture that is being endangered by our modern global monoculture.
An … Continue reading
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In a world of change… ~ Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer
“In a world of change, the learners shall inherit the earth, while the learned shall find themselves perfectly suited for a world that no longer exists.”
— Eric Hoffer
The History of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds
We have to do four things and fast:
Learn to live without fossil fuels.
Adapt to the end of economic growth as we’ve known it.
Support 7 billion humans and stabilize population at a sustainable level.
Deal with our legacy of environmental destruction.
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The Pattern of Living Systems ~ Michelle Holliday
” By itself the living system integrates divergent parts into a convergent whole in dynamic relationships internally and externally in an ongoing moment-by-moment process of self organization and self creation.”
“The true bottom line of business is life”
Berkana’s Two Loops Model
Here is a wonderful 7 minute video by Deborah Frieze on the Berkana model of systems change. I find that this is a very useful model for thinking about transformation. Berkana has identified these four key actions for supporting communities … Continue reading
Why the Crisis? And What to Do About It? ~ Bernard Lietear
Why the crisis? And what to do about it? ~ Bernard Lietear ~ TEDX Talk Berlin by Bernard Lietear
Sally Goerner Video on Complex Intricate Systems
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Tagged complexity, cosmology, currency systems, Living Systems, Video
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SCARF Model ~ David Rock
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Productivity in Healthcare
One of my more vivid memories from my days in healthcare leadership were the painful and adversarial struggles over productivity that seemed to constantly escalate over the past several years.
Payers expected productivity and they set their reimbursement rates accordingly. … Continue reading
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Tagged Articles/Documents, Axialent, CHD, Fred Kofman, ontological, productivity
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