So it’s finally happened…the Australian election has been called. Now we’ll get to see some leadership in action…maybe! 
It’ll be interesting to see how much real leadership comes out from either side…or how often leadership is put aside in the name of political expediency. I’ll be keeping an eye out!
I do love it when things seem to be coming together. I know that I have banged on about the book Natural Capitalism to the point that you are probably being sick if it…but boy is it great when you see some of the concepts being put into action. Check this out….a group called the Earth Economics have re-valued the lower Mississippi Delta in-line with the same kind of principles espoused in Natural Capitalism. It makes for interesting reading…and makes me feel really good that there are positive things going on.
Bob’s blog looks pretty interesting in general actually.
I just love this quote from Natural Capitalism (Pge 316)….
‘Whilst it is unwise to believe in any one environmental projection of the future, it is important to bear in mind that nature bats last and owns the stadium’
…it just says it all for me on the issue of climate change. Nobody knows for sure what is going to happen with global warming but, whatever your view is, we need to keep nature ‘happy’ because she is holding all the cards. I guess the long and the short of it is we need her for the game to continue, she doesn’t need us!
So how do we respond to nature being such a sore loser? (more…)
I do so love my weak puns!
I saw a guy from LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) on TV the other day and was fascinated not only by what he had to say but by why. What LEAP are all about is the legalisation of drugs…but not, as he pointed out, because they are ‘bleeding heart liberals’. In fact he was at great pains to make it clear that he was right of Genghis Khan! But it seems that there is a growing concern among law enforcement that the current strategy on drugs is not only not working but is actually counterproductive, both in terms of its effectiveness in dealing with the issue and it’s impact on the effectiveness and perceptions of law enforcement.
The drug problem is, in my mind, without a doubt an adaptive challenge…. (more…)
I have to thank a mate, Jack McKenzie, for the content of this entry. Check out this video…not only is the speaker very entertaining but, for me, what he says is pure gold. It’s equally applicable in organisations, where creativity is always useful I think, but especially so when you are dealing with adaptive challenges and change…the answer is very rarely obvious, so creativity in your organisation is a big bonus!
Not sure I can add anything else to the video so I’m going to shut up. Oh yes I can….the Sloan Distributed Leadership Model talks about Inventing as one of the four key capabilities needed for leadership in an organisation….creativity –> inventing…but more on that another time!
Did I say KFC? Sorry I meant GFC (Global Financial Crisis) but seeing as you are here why not keep reading!
An excerpt from an article on the ABC (Australian Broadcast Commission) website with comments by Morgan Stanley’s global developed markets strategist and renowned forecaster of the last global crash, Gerard Minack.
“However, Mr Minack said there were fundamental problems that were left unfixed in the band-aid solutions (more…)
I just love this story……
“Consider what happened in Borneo in the 1950’s. Many Dayak villagers had malaria, and the World Health Organisation had a solution that was simple and direct. Spraying DDT seemed to work: Mosquitoes died, and malaria declined. But then an expanding web of side effects started to appear. The roofs of peoples houses began to collapse, because the DDT had also killed tiny parasitic wasps that had previously controlled thatch-eating caterpillars. The colonial government issued sheet-metal replacement roofs, but people couldn’t sleep when tropical rains turned the tin roofs into drums. Meanwhile, the DDT-poisoned bugs were being eaten by geckoes, which were eaten by cats. The DDT invisibly built up in the food chain and began to kill the cats. Without the cats, (more…)
Part of the impetus for setting up this blog and the web-site is a book I’m currently reading called Natural Capitalism. It is an easy and interesting read and fits very nicely with the central theme of this blog….that the thinking that has served us well in the past isn’t going to work in future. The world has gotten too complex and changes too rapidly for the old ways to work. And, specific to this books ideas, resources are no longer as cheap and as abundant as they once were.
The book introduces new ways to think about how we account for natural resources in our industrial processes (more…)
