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“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.... See more
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
Linda Booth Sweeney • Food Systems, Climate Systems, Laundry Systems: The Time for Systems Literacy Is Now! - The Systems Thinker
But that is not how the mind works. First of all, the mind doesn’t truly care about “success”; it just wants to feel loved and then it mistakenly assumes that that is what “success” will bring. Second, whether or not your life feels “lame” is really a matter of how earnestly you pay attention to the world, rather than how much “success” you’ve achieved. In other words: “success”, in the conventional sense, can be completely decoupled from your happiness, and so can failure.
TL;DR: The first step must be to calm our nervous systems; to return to center. From that grounded place, we can take longer-term actions. Second, we can cultivate resilience practices to support us amid turbulent times: taking a rest. Gardening. Spending time with nature, art, music, reading. Third: we have to build community, to invest in... See more
Brian Stout • Building at the speed of belonging... surviving the speed of catastrophe
Compensation and
Now I’m wondering, how does this kind of leadership grow? What conditions does it need to sprout? How do you nurture it? What does its development look like? How can I grow further as a leader in an organisation with no ladder to climb?In a pyramidal organisational structure, it’s clear who is in charge: leadership is concentrated at the top. But... See more
Alanna Irving • How to Grow Distributed Leadership
This report presents initiatives for helping build a more relationship-centred city. But isolated ideas are not enough, no matter how impactful or inspiring. Truly putting better relationships at the heart of London life also requires a more systematic approach to policy and design – one that encourages cross-fertilisation and coherence between... See more
Relationships Project • The Relationship-Centred City
Life and