31 Lessons I’ve Learned So Far
What an auspicious day! I’m 31 years old on the 31st, with a blue moon shining tonight. In my quest for self-discovery and self-creation, I’m always scribbling pieces of advice to myself in the margins of notebooks and on sticky notes in my office. I try to integrate these learnings and apply them in my [...]
EBD TV: McCarthys Interview on Culture Hacking & Workplace Innovation
. Here’s an interview with Jim and Michele McCarthy, authors of the book Software for Your Head: Core Protocols for Creating and Maintaining Shared Vision. If you’d like to meet the McCarthys and learn how to hack workplace culture, join us at the Culture Conference in Philly or Boston this September. For more on the [...]
Video: Unfolding the Story of the Emerging Leader Labs
. Last week we posted an Intro to the Emerging Leader Labs, an initiative in upstate New York to demonstrate that worldchanging projects can get incubated and launched while being supported by a gift economy instead of typical startup capital. This week, a video has been prepared by Ben Brownell, one of the participants in [...]
How to Design Culture: 16 Patterns to Build Adaptive Learning Organizations
How do we form learning cultures in times of accelerating change?
What tools and practices can self-organizing structures implement to become more agile and adaptive?
7 Visions Video & Future of Facebook Project Wrapup
. How long will Facebook be around? Is Facebook prepared to defend against clever new startups? Can Facebook successfully transition to mobile? How will Facebook cope with Augmented Reality? Open Foresight and The Future of Facebook team are pleased to announce the completion of the Future of Facebook interview and video series featuring the likes [...]
EBD TV: Intro to Emerging Leader Labs: part 1
. Here’s the latest episode of my EBD TV experiment, giving a first look at what’s up right now in Chatham at the Emerging Leader Labs incubator.
Transitioning from Rebel to Warrior
I’m in the process of reading The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, the Teacher, Healer and Visionary, by Angeles Arrien, PhD. It explores paths to wholeness and empowerment from the perspectives of indigenous societies and shamanic traditions. In her research, Arrien discovered a pattern of human archetypes that are consistent across cultures, [...]
Announcing: Emerging Leader Labs: A Social Incubator Running on the Gift Economy
It’s an idea whose time has come! Only a little over a month ago, I was sitting at a table with Art Brock & Eric Harris-Braun of the Metacurrency Project, discussing the possibility of launching a new initiative together in the spirit of the “Superhero School” concept many people are currently exploring. The premise is [...]