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Vespasian - The Familia and the Mafia - a model to understand Rome

Here is the blood side of the Corleone family. This is not the whole picture as we will see in this post. Today, we will see how the archetypal Corleone "Family" helps us understand how the Roman Familia works. First of all, a mob Fa...

World War 1 - John McCrae - The Motives behind In Flanders Fields

This is Frank Hurley's famous image of a dressing station. There is more than a dressing station here. Hurley, a great artist, added the sky effect deliberately. It is surely a "sacrament"? So too, on May 3rd 1915, when, crushed by ...

Are you a "Phase Jumper"? Can you see the Matrix?

What do I mean by a Phase Jumper and what is the link to The Matrix? What might this mean to you? If Hugh's immortal cartoon makes you cringe and laugh, you are likely to be what I call a "Phase Jumper". If you are made angry by it,...

Is your home a prison cell or your key to freedom?

What our home is like is surely key to being free or not. Is your home a prison cell or is it the core of your freedom? In this post, I attach a conversation with Earl Mardle who, with his wife Linda, is working hard to make his home th...

Change in Organizational Life - Just Tech or something more?

Chicken or Egg? - Is the change confronting how we organize to work driven by tech or by culture? The answer to this question is important. For the large organizations have decided on Tech. Are they right? Or are they wasting their tim...

Why I think that PEI will lead the Food Revolution

PEI is near the Tipping Point where a new system breaks out. For many years the farmer's market was where the Granola fold met. It was a club of the converted. It was the Innovators who are this group. Innovators are: Innovators are d...

How to change your work culture - a lesson from nearly 100 years ago - Vimy Ridge

On this day, April 9th, 1917 the Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge and changed how war was fought in WWI. Their story is not only important in purely historic terms (this was Canada's Waterloo - Gettysburg - Gallipoli) but how they...

What your baby needs more than food itself? Touch

I have been exploring touch over the last few days. One of my aha's is that while we think we are so modern, we are primates. We may have been homo sapiens for 40,000 years and we may have been "civilized" for 4,000 years but we ha...

The future of learning is not school but you

One of the people I admire most who is engaged in the question of how do we make learning better is Will Richardson. Another is Sir Ken Robinson. Naturally they both are coming to the same conclusion: The future is not about making scho...

Can a conventional organization become a network? A Case Study

I have been posting a lot recently about how networks work. My new book is all about why and how the Network model will take down all those that organize traditionally. So what to do? You have a traditional organization. Can you change ...