Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

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Thursday, July 29, 2021

Change the World?

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I haven’t forgotten my intention to address Henry Mintzberg’s point that the Reformation offers an example to give us hope in these difficu...

Friday, December 11, 2020

Commanding Hope

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Canadian Thomas Homer-Dixon is not your typical doom-merchant – although his was one of the first books I read suggesting that the increasin...

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Changing the World?

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I have long known that the trick – for any daunting task - was to break it down into small, manageable parts. .But I hadn’t until now rea...

Friday, November 2, 2018

When the spark ignites

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Sometimes a nation or a people feel such humiliation and anger about the way they are being treated that it takes only one incident to spar...

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Revisiting a neglected management classic

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Just before this blog went silent in early August, I had written an important post distinguishing 5 very different “theories of change” .....

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nomadron: Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania; Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains

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