Archive for March, 2011

Friday, March 18th, 2011

So – hands up who thinks that the NHS is perfectly alright as it is, and needs nothing done to improve it? Well, this is all in my imagination, but I am not seeing any hands going up. Most specifically I am not seeing them from anyone who works in the NHS.

Spiritual Intelligence

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Are you spiritually intelligent? I sit here having planned for this blog to be about multiple intelligences. I have a swollen black eye with two small cuts, having failed to control the release of a bungee chord that was tying up a bundle of timber in my car. Blame it on cold fingers as I [...]

Sex and the Perfect Man

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Mankind has lived through all history in this tension; men abusing women and women using men. And because none of us were to be trusted, Blue invented rules to govern our sexual impulses. The apostle Paul got exercised over the sin of fornication and legitimized it only within marriage, and even then only as long as you promise not to enjoy it, and only to do it for procreation. Red uses it for Power, Orange for Status, and Green for bonding.

Polarised thinking

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Whatever the arena, the speed of change and the requirement to balance a wide range of societal or business forces demands flexibility and responsiveness. Thus the ability to see polarities not as an “either-or” to be decided upon, but as a “both-and” to be managed will be critical to our future success.

Ground-breaking blog. The Dual, the non-Dual and the Big Missing Piece

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Humanity has been stuck – seemingly forever – in its challenge to understand the relationship between the material world and the other reality that is represented by mystical experience, intuition, shamanism, meditation and prayer. This can seem like a choice between realities. It isn’t. There is a piece missing which once understood, explains everything.

Preparing for Global Bankruptcy

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Despite the apparent ability of the world economy to survive, bankruptcy is already here. By way of reminder, global indebtedness exceeds ten years of global production. If you need another statistic, the UK national debt is now £77,000 for every inhabitant of this country. We have mortgaged our own future and that of our children.

People not Platforms. Now that the Parties are over

Friday, March 18th, 2011

It was not policy differences which drove the decision but tactics over leadership and voting systems. There is no sign of any fundamental shift underway within the Labour debate and their identity may well be defined now by attempts to find some distinction from the coalition.

Crisis as opportunity

Friday, March 18th, 2011

There will be a recurring theme through this series of blogs on social dynamics. That theme is complexity. Integral and Spiral Dynamics approaches both portray our time as one of major transition, driven in large measure by an evolutionary crisis. Our ways of thinking and being are challenged to attain a new level in order [...]

Who will deliver the Big Society?

Friday, March 18th, 2011

The Big Society is on its way. Big government will be minimised and in its place something new must manifest. It is a huge cultural change. Our view is that it emerges as a part of the criticality in life conditions which propel the predicted requirement to “leap” into second tier. Whether we can meet that requirement will depend on our collective ability to understand how to deliver complex systems, meshworks and flex-flow capability.

The end of the Linear

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Einstein is quoted regularly for his view that you cannot solve a problem using the same thinking that created it. While this has always been true in regard to the need to bring more information and changed assumptions into our analyses, what we are now encountering goes beyond that and requires an octave-shift in our thinking style.