Wednesday, May 12, 2021

What’s Transitional Justice – when it’s at home?

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I continue to think about the increasing divisiveness in our societies – and the apparently minimal efforts being made to repair the divisi...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Against Binary thinking

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I generally don’t like to see it suggested that the world consists of two sorts of people – us and them; insiders and outsiders; left and ri...
Sunday, May 9, 2021

Attempting the Impossible

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The last post suggested that few authors had dared tackle the question of national success – choosing instead to focus on how nations fail. ...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

How does a country go about constructing a hopeful future?

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It’s been fashionable recently to write about how countries fail – but the challenge of finding countries which have put together a winnin...
Thursday, May 6, 2021

Futures Work anyone?

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“How to restore the capacity for effective and responsible action in a world we no longer understand and cannot control”   That’s how IFF ...
Monday, May 3, 2021

Mary Parker Follett

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I was intrigued by a couple of pages in Ian Leslie’s book on the value of “productive conflict” - which extolled a management thinker active...
Thursday, April 29, 2021

The Uses of Conflict

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I may sometimes fancy myself as a contrarian, challenging the “conventional wisdom” but, temperamentally, I am not cut out for confrontation...
Monday, April 26, 2021

The Future isn't what it used to be!

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When I had a high profile – as a change agent in Europe’s largest Region in the 1970s and 1980s – I would quite often receive invitations to...