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Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
when staff interact only professionally, the normative frame is cold, rational, transactional; when the targets are all about quantity, the culture is all about immediate return on investment. The dominant story is ritualised into the context of everything we do; and unless we consciously act to break it, it drags us back in.
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Keely Adler added 2mo ago
To embrace a new story, safe uncertainty is the mindset we need to cultivate not just as individuals, but as organisations, institutions, and indeed whole societies. This demands honesty, acknowledgement of the challenges, and a commitment to facing them together.
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Keely Adler added 2mo ago
unlocking energy and ideas that started to bubble up from everywhere as power was pushed out to the local level, where the relationships between people and place actually happened.
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Keely Adler added 2mo ago
In order to survive and thrive, we must step into the Citizen Story. We must see ourselves as Citizens – people who actively shape the world around us, who cultivate meaningful connections to their community and institutions, who can imagine a different and better life, who care and take responsibility, and who create opportunities for others to do
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Keely Adler added 2mo ago
In 2013 Rick Falkvinge, the Pirates founder, released his book Swarmwise: the Tactical Manual to Changing the World (for free, via a Creative Commons license, part of the Open Source movement), which immediately acquired cult status among the ‘digerati’ of Europe.
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Keely Adler added 2mo ago
Each might seem to embody a ‘type,’ a common label: Activist, perhaps, for Immy, or Aid Worker; Hacker-Entrepreneur for Bianca; Community Leader for Kennedy; Victim-Survivor for Reen; and Anarchist, perhaps, for Billy. I’d like to reframe these five people as practitioners of the Citizen Story: my emblematic Citizens. They are the force that makes
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Purpose-driven firms are radically rethinking sourcing practices, product design, value chains, and so on, and that’s to be celebrated. But while they do these things for us, behind the counter, they’re all too often still thinking of and communicating to people as Consumers – and contributing massively to those 3,000 messages a day, to that underl
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Thinking outside the box, embracing new technologies, welcoming diverse contributions: none of this is part of their mindset. It furthers the alienation of young people who are accustomed to openness and sharing.
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Keely Adler added 2mo ago
deep stories come in interlocking layers, some deeper than others, with the deeper dictating the available space for the shallower: personal deep stories exist within community deep stories exist within national deep stories.
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