Sustained or suspended?
Posted in: Entrepreneur Tags: Entrepreneur, Humanity, leadership, organisation, sustainability
Some time ago I gave a talk in the US, as the event had to do with sustainability and leadership, I spoke about a continuum from the ‘disaster waiting to happen’ or being ‘suspended’ to having a good chance of sustaining an organisation’s existence for a long time.
I have looked inside large and small organisations [...]
Vignette – how to on foresight – people knowledge central
Posted in: Foresight Tags: decision-making, how to, human, Humanity, organization, people, psychology, sociocultural, sociology, strategy, sustainability, understanding
MAKE THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT CENTRAL
Make the human context central to any strategic foresight activity. Do not be overly enamored with industry analysis, technology, or business trends and forget or overlook the role of people. Many activities produce impressive reams of data but haven’t thought through how the people affected would react or respond in the [...]
Continuity vs. sustainability
Posted in: Humanity, Innovation Tags: champions, climate change, Continuity, heretics, navel gazing, repeatability, sustainability
Reinventing to survive
2007 seems to be the year that those who spent years on sustainability [environmental] and seemed to get very little public attention have finally been given a small thank you for their efforts. The spotlight is on climate change.
To sustain a business over changes in people inside and outside the organization, cultures, [...]
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