Victor Cary

Much of our success as a species derives from our ability to free ourselves from nature and the feedback loops that constrain other species – things like disease, climate, scarcity, predation, darkness, distance, gravity, etc. We’ve done the same thing in the social domain too, trading the enabling constraints of oral culture, kinship networks and ... See more

Instead, allow multiple visions to coexist and use them all together to prioritise action today that will make them all likelier and/or clearer.

Leadership wasn’t just an act inside a system. It was a way of tuning the system itself. Through presence. Through phrasing. Through timing.

Complexity theory tells us that planning is arguably less important than understanding that plans fail all the time, to work with that knowledge, and manage the potential for change (a plan in and of itself) because life doesn’t work to pre-conceived ideals.

Plans ultimately form the core of business organizations; they corral and structure, channel thought and action into a controllable field. But it's important to understand that plans do and will fail. The future is unknown and things change; it is imperative to understand and plan for it.

What’s a Protocol?

At the Wolf Willow Institute, our work begins with a simple premise: that complexity, consciousness, and ecological belonging are braided. We’re certain that navigating this civilizational inflection point requires more than care and cleverness - it demands a deep shift in consciousness. A move from linear control to relational at... See more

Our country has urgent problems and solving them requires the civic solidarity that thinking of ourselves as Americans helps to create. The historian Richard Slotkin has observed that a workable American identity must join both the descendants of the Indigenous and those who dispossessed them, the line of the enslaved and those who possessed them, ... See more

The world has changed, so the way that we think about what it means to become American must too. But one thing remains the same: A cohesive and inclusive American identity won’t just create itself. It must be forged. And it’s a project that we must all participate in, adapting the successes and avoiding the missteps of the past.

We also need to find a higher ground of shared meaning and significance so we all know why we are in this together and why it is worth transcending and including all our differences in pursuit of a shared vision of thriving together .