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culture

Constructive Criticism

There is a certain measure of parochial denialism in regards to the appropriateness and effectiveness of our current global administrations, organisations and bureaucracies…

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Illogical

The “why” is not always more important than the “how” when governance and bureaucracy at a large organisational or international scale is concerned…

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culture

Illusion

It can be of no great surprise to any of us that there has never been any fully complete, self-consistent or comprehensively successful political system…

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culture

Latency

The act of writing is the creation of the concept and idea, the production of a thought in stored form as potential energy…

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culture

Untruth

Belief has always been quite easily uncoupled from reality…

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culture

Conformity

An interesting montage of ideas and images, reflections from some powerful thinkers on the topic of conformity. Possibly more important than ever in our current socially-mediated, hyper-normative mass communications world…

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culture

Inertia

Systemic bureaucratic failures breed inertia and internal complexity within organisations…

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culture

Innovation

If innovation is in essence “useful creativity”, and creativity itself is perhaps at least partially defined as unguided, reflective practice – the best we can do is to massage the ambiguities and uncertainties into general directions…

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culture

Analog

…our globally interconnected organisational systems are still attempting to hammer the square peg of analog thinking and management style into the round hole of digital transformation…

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culture

Veiled

We suffocate ourselves in the symbols and signs, stories and concepts that we think represent life but in so doing we actually distract ourselves from the simplest fact of just living…

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Philosophy

Stop

We are like the origami cranes which once unfolded reveal themselves as merely being the blank sheets of paper that they always were…

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Narratives

The Universe may be a wily playwright…