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Organisations define and redefine themselves in response to new demands and opportunities that emerge from changing conditions. The popular use of outsourcing, for instance, is a familiar strategy often driven by twin demands to cut costs and improve delivery. Public and private enterprise now faces more complex systemic demands, which challenge us to organise and cooperate across traditional boundaries.New research demonstrates how collaborative inquiry can be a source of innovative thinking…See More

The session will be led by Fiona Ellis and David Ballard. It will address the following questions:What enables one organisation to tackle climate change more effectively than another?How can leaders identify when initiatives are likely to stall and what is needed in order to create progress?This workshop presents PACT, a research-based framework for strategic capacity building designed to help organisations respond to pressure for climate change mitigation and adaptation - as well as other…See More

A couple of days ago, I came across an idea by Edward de Bono which he calls a "bonto poem". If you fancy a little creativity on the poetry front, the bonto offers a potential answer. It challenges the writer to create a poem that ‘makes a point’ within a strict set of rules – and using just four lines of verse.The following rules for the bonto are reproduced from a post on The De Bono Society site:The first line…See More