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The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there's been massive investment in public sector 'improvement', 'customer choice' has been increased and new targets have been set and refined. But our experience is that things haven't changed much. This is because governments have invested i...

Ernesto Pujol here combines elements from an art book, field journal and walkers' manifesto. It is a text for performative artists, art students, and all who walk as cultural activism. Walking Art Practice is a collection of intimate reflections by the author, which bring together his experiences as a former monk, performance artist, social choreographer and educator.They serve as a provocation, w...

In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who would usher in this new era as people with the capacity to understand, bring about and absorb a paradigm shift. He added: I have an uneasy feeling about this chapter. It is a beginning, an outline, a suggestion. I believe that what I am saying here will ...

How the hidden drives and motivations of the Trimotive Braindetermine our behaviour at work -- and what we can do about it.Unless we are in physical danger few of us think we are living under threat. Yet our brains believe we are at risk many times a day.Nowhere is this more true than at work, where our response to deadlines, budget cuts, abrasive managers, competitive colleagues and dissatisfied...

Our money system IS the 'Missing Link'. We tend to assume that we must have a single, monopolistic currency, funded through bank debt, enforced by a central bank. But we don't need any such thing! In fact, the present system is outdated, brittle and unfit for purpose (witness the eurozone crisis). Like any other monoculture, it's profitable at first but ultimately a recipe for economic and environ...

You may be: trying to fix the healthcare system in your country. dealing with family break-up. exploring change - and making it happen - in your organisation. worrying about how to look after your elderly parents. In any case, you'll know that with some problems it's hard to know where to start - we can't define them, we get in a muddle thinking about them, we may try to ignore some aspect/s o...

Innovation is a necessity in a changing world. But what kind of innovation?Sustaining innovation fixes whats failing. Disruptive innovation shakesthings up. Only transformative innovation can deliver a fundamental shifttowards new patterns of viability in tune with our aspirations for the future.Typically, disruptive initiatives make only a short-term impact or areeventually mainstreamed to help s...

The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, theres been massive investment in public sector improvement, customer choice has been increased and new targets have been set and refined.But our experience is that things havent changed much. This is because governments have invested in the w...