dane cads

How we organise pay and how we contract with our team is a critical part of how we build a distributed international ecosystem. We have intentionally designed our pay and contracting systems to date in a way that is set up to avoid pay functioning as an incentive or a reward for work done or for rank, and instead tries to build it as a liberating... See more

When have I felt most joyful this year and what steps can I take to recreate those conditions?

Como Orchards 2044 is an imagined future for a real ranch in Montana where Frank Lloyd Wright designed a community back in 1908. This “newsletter” from the year 2044 is a dream of what could unfold over the next twenty years if we choose a more regenerative way of being on this planet based on many people’s real and imagined ideas.

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.

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

Investors and funders must abandon the idea that capital alone is sufficient to transform inequitable systems. They must interrogate the power dynamics underlying their decisions and operations to meet the complex challenges of racial, gender, and economic inequality, moving from a “power over” to a “power with” approach. Failure to integrate this... See more