Learning to tackle wicked problems, July 2012

  • 26th July 2012
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Many years as a facilitator with teams in business and a wake-up call (the death of a parent) convinced me getting richer fails to solve our problems as a society (hunger, poverty, education etc), problems that today seem to be getting bigger and harder to grip. So I began a quest that included being a […]

What is your tree trunk? July 2012

  • 24th July 2012
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It is raining, a tree is blocking the road, people are getting frustrated as traffic is backing up but doing nothing. A small boy starts to push the huge tree trunk and we think “what a pity …how naïve!”. But the boy sets off a ripple effect: other young boys join in, adults notice and […]