Innovation through an era of expensive cash
January 23, 2023
We’re going to see major adjustments to how we do capital investment. We’re entering an era of more expensive cash. Shorter timeframes for returns. Tighter
Your imagination: why it needs practice to fire it up, and three ways to do it
January 23, 2023
I’ve been teaching more foresight recently, and noticing how easy it is to get out of practice in using our imagination. Being able to describe
Independent Chair, Norfolk Disability
September 2, 2022
Do you care about social justice and want to see equality in how disabled people live their lives? Do you have the skills and experience
Happy Sunday
May 19, 2022
I had a coffee with a new person this week, who is just doing that brilliant thing of reaching out. So good to connect. To
The Future of Caring in Norwich: report and webinar
April 5, 2022
Imagine Norwich as a City where…. Caring with each other is front and centre. It is easy to connect with strangers and neighbours alike. These
Are you Caring in Norwich?
January 10, 2022
What would you notice if Caring was valued more, in the way we live and work in Norwich? Are you Caring for someone in Norwich?
The Future of Caring in the Norwich Economy
November 30, 2021
Between now and the end of March 2022 I’m talking to people in Norwich, the regional city centre of Norfolk, England, about how care is
The practice of noticing
October 14, 2021
Whatever phase we’re all in now, it’s so easy to be so deeply enmeshed in it, that I cannot look up or around to notice
Where is our ambition for community-led tech?
September 28, 2021
A few months ago I shared the Bennett Institute’s ground-breaking synthesis of research on Community Infrastructure. Making the case for investment in spaces and places that
Boardroom Diplomacy
July 28, 2021
6 months into the pandemic I heard an impressive social entrepreneur talk about persuading government to change tac. One element that made it possible was
The way our brains really work – Mindfullness for organisational behaviour?
June 28, 2021
I came across some critiquing of the practice of Mindfullness in organisations this week. On the one hand, seeing it as essential for dealing with
What’s disrupting our short-term behaviour, and will it last?
November 19, 2020
How do we shift from short-term to long-term behaviour? What’s disrupting it now and will it last? What might it take to create a more collaborative future?