Archive for September, 2008

We’ve been living in serious debt: not just financial but ecological too. Essentially we’ve been subsidising the American Dream lifestyle and consumption patterns that are far beyond our actual means. That’s why the Green New Deal suggesting joined-up policies to address the ‘triple crunch’ of 1)credit,  2)climate change and 3)oil prices is such an important [...]

Common Sense

21Sep08

A guide to the present situation
By Paul Williams (author of Das Energi)
Copyright 1982
Our purpose here
is to take action
and have an effect on the world.
We have been born
into a moment
of unprecedented danger and opportunity.
Our failure to act
is itself a choice.
There is nowhere to hide
from this awareness.
It is time.
It is time for each one of us
to commit [...]

In a world with soooo many ideas, there’s no doubt that its only the ones that spread that win. The question is what drives idea diffusion? All of us have too many choices, and too little time. Seth Godin argues that we only notice the remarkable (worth making a remark about). We like new, we [...]

In their latest study of more than a thousand CEOs, IBM finds that high-performing companies are hungry for change, wildly imaginative, wired globally, disruptive in nature, and socially aware. Here is how they describe the ‘enterprise of the future’:
Hungry for Change
The enterprise of the future is capable of changing quickly and successfully. Instead of merely [...]