systems thinking

It’s also important to acknowledge that the systems change or innovation scene is not the only place where change and innovation is happening. Real change doesn’t always get recognised as something novel or innovative. Because it’s so novel and innovative it doesn’t get recognised at all! I’m interested in that kind of change.

Part of what I feel is important right now is to be in the system and to be creating these pockets and spaces and kind of stretching the constraints of people deeply in the current broken system to think differently, to expand their perspective, to exercise their moral imagination to look at a situation from a seven generations in the future, or fr... See more

Humanity is at a crossroads, will we be hoarders or healers? There is every reason to argue that history proves either. System Change is needed to find our way to another way of living that is not fed by exploitation of each other and the ecology. The change needed is not in any of the institutions, for surely they are interdependent, the change is... See more

“We seem to have been living for a long time on the assumption that we can safely deal with parts, leaving the whole to take care of itself.

But now the news from everywhere is that we have to begin gathering up the scattered pieces, figuring out where they belong, and putting them back together. For the parts can be reconciled to one another only

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First-level thinking is about immediate gratification.

That's the little voice inside of you that says you should do what feels good in the moment — eat the cake, skip the workout, and stay up late.

While one of these decisions won't hurt you, they pull you away from your destination. Progress becomes slower and harder. Think of it like a road trip... See more