Protected: A Dive into the Digital Era

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Introducing restrainability

One of the potential difficulties with the concept of sustainability is its current context. It has become a value-laded term, employed by different, usually benevolent, interest groups. One benevolent interest is to safeguard the planet for future generations, with an underlying assumption that current human behaviour is making our planet unsustainable. “Sustainable development is development that…

What is Conversifying?

Conversifying breathes conversation into a meeting, conference, gathering or event. When we conversify an event, we increase the level and quality of interaction, adding energy to the dialogue. We ensure that any communication serves the purpose of all who are taking part. We look to simplify the over-complicated and be create with clunky, over-fixed meeting…

Open Some Space

Would you like to open some space in your organisation or community? I can help you. I’ve been opening space for over twenty years, using Open Space Technology and other approaches. If you’d like to organise an Open Space Conference then contact me. You can reach me easily… By email at paul@cats3000.net Or by telephone…

Technosophy – Defined

Technosophy is a “wise” approach to technology design, assessment, implementation and management. It goes beyond traditional technical-engineering and economics-driven approach to involve a more multi-disciplinary and multi-perspective approach, especially at the design and assessment phases. Technosophy involves philosophical inquiry alongside engineering design to produce “purposeful” technological applications. A technosophic approach to design is a multi-perspective,…

The Collusion of Mediocrity – background

I first noticed the collusion of mediocrity in a restaurant. A friend’s starter came and was not what they ordered. When the waiter offered to change my friend replied: “No, it’s fine. I’ll have this.” It soon became clear it was not what they really wanted. On another occasion one of our party remarked that…

Wretched Contentment

Wretched contentment is a state of happiness that is akin to a calm-looking lake that hides dangerous, swirling, even chaotic undercurrents, hidden below the surface, sometimes, so deeply below the surface that they may never make their presence known at the surface level. Wretched contentment is often a side effect of colluding with mediocrity- where…

Recession Passion

It might seem a strange notion that the words “passion” and “recession” might sit together easily in the same sentence. Recessions are seen as wholly negative things by most people. Recessions are a time of decline, of cost cutting, lack of sales, job losses – a time of zero or negative growth. We need to…

Our Services in the Digital Realm

Everything you read here can be shared with you, your team, or your colleagues and partners using digital media. You can book a briefing, where I can join your audio or video meeting (IN a tele- or videoconference, a Skype call or a Google Hangout etc). I can also present a keynote at your larger…

Why Conscious Business Isn’t Just “Best Practice”

At a  Conscious Business Meeting in London a few years ago (that group is no longer operating) , a participant asked a very important question. I was sharing the 1001 tips for being a conscious business and he asked: But isn’t this all just “best practice”? Now, best practice is a term that has been…

Toxic Business Consciousness

One of the unique aspects to the definition of conscious business you will find here is that a business can be highly conscious and be hugely damaging, cynical and even corrupt. The mainstream definitions of conscious business take a view that being “conscious” means being benevolent, and it isn’t surprising that the words “ethical” and…

Conscious Business – The model drawn

This is my working model of a conscious business.