Very Zen – a walk in the Sydney bush
Sydney Bush – 27km Training 17 July 2011 – photo by Roddy Kerr The trail we trained on yesterday is a particularly beautiful one. The walk was very zen. A little detail: to earn this view we needed to go up and down many hills and rocks.
Emerging cityscapes in the next ten years
Posted in: Entrepreneur, Foresight, Humanity, Life Tags: cities, entrepreneurial, Foresight, human condition, what people want
Hunome has kept me very busy. When Frank at KedgeForward asked me to contribute an article it was a neat little break from the 'on the business' and 'in the business' and have a moment to think about one major aspect of our human condition. I wrote a think piece on the emerging cityscape. My [...]
Epicurus on future
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Life Tags: Epicurus future foresight
We must remember that the future is neither wholly ours nor wholly not ours, so that neither must we count upon it as quite certain to come, nor despair of it as quite certain not to come. Epicurus, 341-270 b.C., Greek philosopher, Letter to Menouceus, The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments [...]
Consensual self-deception: An essential trouble with humanity
Last Friday at a dinner party chez Catherine and Hugues, Ron, a seasoned business man and a neighbour told us a story, which had its underpinnings in these six points from the book: LEADERSHIP AND SELF-DECEPTION from “THE ARBINGER INSTITUTE” 1) An act contrary to a feeling of what I should do for another person [...]
Foresight Identities – a journey of transformation
Posted in: Foresight, Humanity, Life Tags: eric hoffer, Foresight, foresight identities, Future, howard thurman, human, Humanity, identity, ideology, intuition, jonah lehrer, learned, martin luther king, opinion, Prosapience, research, science, sisu, timing, william gibson
Just like we are different people to different people Foresight Identities are different approaches for different needs… I gave a talk on Foresight Identities and my journey through them at the ‘Futures Hot House’ at AMP building in Sydney last week, thank you Janine and thank you audience for the wonderful questions. The NINE different [...]
Naturally
All smiles conversation between mother and son as the growing just keeps going and soon: 1/ There are no more regular shoe sizes left from manufacturers => have to special order shoes 2/ The beds are too short and the door ways too low Me: Stop growing. Son: Why? Me: Cause I say so. Son: [...]
If it can happen in Finland it can happen anywhere
Posted in: Life Tags: balance, Belonging, Continuity, freedom, human, Humanity, nation building, proactive society, Prosapience, rights, society
Where balanced people go hunting and not so go on a rampage…. figuring who’s who in the zoo One month ago a student killed eight people at a school in Jokela, which is a small town about 50km from Helsinki the capital of Finland. He then killed himself, which, according to Finnish experts was what [...]
Dual lib
From women’s liberation to men’s liberation to dual liberation The 70s was the era of bra burning in some parts of the world, women demanding equal rights in areas, which were still behind like for example women in the work force, in management and leadership roles and representation in academia [they still are]. In the [...]
Carnival of the humans
Posted in: Life Tags: archetypes, art, Connecting, human, michael leunig, poetry, Prosapience, saint-saens
Picture this – a few hours last Sunday filled with aaahhhs and ahas – what a bliss!!! Sydney Opera Concert Hall….Australian Chamber Orchestra performing [worth finding out more here]. What attracted me to this event was partly the combination of music, poetry and theatre framed by Camille Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals. ….and the main [...]
How we love the things those we love love
My father loved his books Our home was always covered in books. Wall to wall books. Even our kitchen had a whole bookcase on something else he loved, cooking. My mother is the ‘chef’ and my father was the chef of the occasional day. I shipped 30 boxes of books from Finland to Australia in [...]
Human sillyness
Nothing changes while the way in which we express humanity changes In French there is a saying: “Plus ça change plus c’est la même chose”. The more things change the more they are the same. We can sometimes be extremely contradictory between our stated intent and our behavior. I’ve got two examples about this human [...]
Ponderings on a balanced society…
Posted in: Life, Personal Tags: apathy, Belonging, conscious capitalism, crisis, education, finland, foundations, Innovation, pendulum swing, politics, privacy, ramble, societal change, values
A happy society? What makes that happen? Where is the good model? Some dimensions to bring about the conditions I lived through an amazing transformation in Finland during the 90s. It did require a good level of consensus but it was helped by a crisis. In the early 90s companies, like Nokia, and the whole [...]
Seeing shapes of what might be
Exploring …an excerpt…. McLUHAN: “Sometimes I wonder. I’m making explorations. I don’t know where they’re going to take me. My work is designed for the pragmatic purpose of trying to understand our technological environment and its psychic and social consequences. But my books constitute the process rather than the completed product of discovery; my purpose [...]
Connected world impact on management
Posted in: Innovation, Life Tags: connected things, Connecting, Continuity, everyday digitization, industry cross overs, liquid time and place, location, mobility in business, mobility in everyday, networks as innovation platform, place shifting, presence, time shifting
The more ‘connected’ we are the less ‘connected at the hip’ we need to be – potentially only applies to work…. On the 23rd of May I gave a short presentation on ‘Connected World’ to CSC media invitees in Switzerland. The presentation touched on eight key trends in the connected world; things like presence and [...]
On far and near worlds
Posted in: Life, Personal Tags: Belonging, emergent, expression, far worlds, Humanity, near worlds, pragmatic
Defining the meaning of far and near in the context of this site…and maybe other…let’s see The name far other worlds for this blog came about in a chat with a friend. I had started with a name like tuning to musings, which did not seem to gel with the experienced blogger. He asked: What [...]
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