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”.

Sunday, April 24, 2022

Should we focus less on Change – and more on healthy organisations and societies? - Part X of a series

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As I try to pull these notes about change together, let me start with Donald Schon’s 1970 Reith lectures, called “Beyond the Stable State ” ...

Saturday, April 23, 2022

Reviewing Strathclyde Region's Social Strategy - part IX

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Rosabeth Kanter is one of the most famous management writers and suggested in 1992 " Ten Commandments for Executing Change " w...

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

There are no experts - being Part VIII of a series

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The beauty of a series of posts is that you get the chance to see an issue from several points of view (that indeed explains the blog's ...

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Pragmatic Idealism of Strathclyde Region – part VII

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Retracing one’s steps can be both frustrating and dangerous - frustrating when you are looking for something and not quite sure what it is; ...

Sunday, April 17, 2022

Speak, Memory - the UK in the late 1960s – part VI of the current series about “Change”

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This post has proved quite a challenge – forcing me to confront the question of the reliability of our own personal memories compared wit...

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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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