A Most Discrete Desertion
From Digitisation to Disenfranchisement
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Musings on Systems Change
Work on complex systems, transformation, emergence, and the leverage points that reshape organisations and societies.
Redacted!
Freedom of Information or the Manufacture of Ignorance?
The End of the Opposition
A New Working Grammar for Government
The Unseen Architecture of Consent
Recalibrating Human Agency in the Algorithmic Age
Using Capital Wisely
The changing nature of capital and its use
Industrial Economism – The Pathology & Its Cure
A Death Wish with a Business Plan
The Blind Strategist
Why Conventional Strategy Cannot See the World it Claims to Navigate
Monsoon Before The Storm
The Gathering Pressures of a Multipolar World
The Cost of an Unfiltered Woman
A friend of mine posted something on LinkedIn this morning that I could not put down.
When The Masters Stop Learning
In the early 1980s I found myself walking factory floors in a Japan many American executives still assumed was an industrial backwater.
Food: The Operating System Of A Dying World
I have spent much of my life staring at the dashboard of a civilisation that thinks it’s steering, while in reality its strapped to the front of a runaway helter-skelter, applauding its own acceleration.
The Thinker the Century Couldn't Hear
In Memoriam Edgar Morin
When the Law Becomes the Threat
Political Dishonesty Operating Legitimately
Punishing Conscience
The UK Prison System and Environmental Activism
Anxiety In The Western Mind
Distrust and the Machinery of an Exhausted Civilisation
Bullshit We Call Leadership
What if leaders and leadership are the problem?
After Control
On Shedding the Operating System of Industrial Economism
The Dissolution of Political Gravitas
The Portal Between Obsolete Containers and the Ecority Paradigm
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