Making a Business Social
With social media becoming ubiquitous in our lives and in the workplace, how are companies responding to this new environment? This is a question I have been pondering over the last two weeks having seen two very different sides of the debate. The first viewpoint came from the speakers at the Like Minds Social Business...
Thoughts on Humanity 2.0
Last night I attended a fascinating debate at the RSA in London to launch the new book by Steve Fuller, chair in social epistemology at Warwick University. The book, entitled Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human, Past, Present and Future looks at the question of what does it mean to be human in...
Digital Adventures in Working Well
Last weekend, Alex and I travelled to a tiny community called Angsbaka in central Sweden to a conference/festival on living sustainably. I was there to give a talk on how digital is changing the way we work and also to give a workshop on my Working Well programme (which took place in a round strawbale...
My Journey on The Road Less Travelled
About 15 years ago I picked up the seminal book by M. Scott Peck called The Road Less Travelled. In the book Dr. Peck suggests ways in which confronting and resolving our problems, and suffering through the changes, can enable us to reach a higher level of self-understanding. For me the core message of the...
Intention, Alignment and Letting Go
Readers of this blog will know that I practice a style of yoga called Anusara yoga. Started by John Friend in Paris, it means ‘open to grace’ or ‘following your heart’. It’s a really physical but very light hearted practice and Anusara yogis believe in the inherent goodness of people, something that sits well with...
Women as Enablers
March 8th marks the Global Centenary of International Women’s Day (IWD)- a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. We have come a long way since 1911 when women’s oppression and inequality was rife and women (and men) took to the streets to campaign for women’s rights...
An Entrepreneur’s Ode to Gratitude
January was a funny month. It’s cold, everyone was sick (cough), business is slow. The evenings are still dark and spring seems very far away. Uncertainty seems to hang in the air and even in our insulated middle-class lives, things are changing. Yesterday, I heard that three senior staff in a well known social enterprise...
