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The Thing About Suffering
There are two kinds of suffering. One is the kind you can control. If it is within your power to stop it, not taking action is self-neglect, cowardice or falling victim to self-centred leadership. Today, some find their loyalty is being used as a tool to further the...
Climate Change is Not a Hero Story
In many ways, the documentary An Inconvenient Truth was the call to action against the impending dangers of climate change. The car-driving, hamburger-eating, consumer-driven cultures paused in their tracks to watch the film.
Engagement and Shareholder Primacy
How is a company supposed to deal with the UN declaration of Indigenous groups’ entitlement to ‘free prior and informed consent’ and meet their obligation to shareholders? These competing values are putting mineral companies in a difficult position when they go to the...
Efficiency or Resilience: can we have both?
E Efficiency is the elimination of waste. But what if waste is actually a nutrient in a new system. In this case, efficiency is the elimination of nutrients. Resilience, on the other hand is a measure of how ready we are to incorporate those nutrients. It excels at...
The Slippery Slope Myth
No doubt you’ve seen this play out before. Someone asks for a concession at work, for example, an employee with a sick daughter asks if she can work from home for a few days. The boss considers it but rejects the request because “if we allow this once, then...
A New Road for EAs?
Linear leadership understands power as the ability to assert your will, even against resistance. In this mindset, the environmental assessment (EA) process is linked to the licencing process as a watchdog for potential problems. It seeks to protect the...
Jill Bolte Taylor’s Story
From a circular perspective, there are two ways of knowing because that is what we experience. This is valid even without scientific study or expert advice. Linear thinking wants external, objective, repeatable evidence. Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuro-anatomist, actually...
Are You a Circular or a Linear Thinker?
Have you ever been in a conversation and felt like you've just been hit by a train? Or, that the person you are talking to is from another planet, and there might be unicorns and endless time there? These are extreme cases, but I do sometimes find myself in a...
The Movie Arrival is All About 2WK
Louise and Ian, a linguist and a scientist, are rushed by helicopter to the site of an alien arrival. Somehow they have to decode the alien communication system, or as Louise would say, have a conversation with them. The US Army, and indeed the world, wants to know...
What Do You Get From Complaining and Gossip?
Will Bowen’s 21-Day complaint free challenge has been getting a lot of media attention lately. It made me wonder why people are finding this challenge, well, so challenging. We, as a society, must be getting something out of complaining or it would be much easier to...
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