A paragraphg in a recent article of The Economist on “how business schools should change change”, recalled a conversation I had with Dustin, on the relevance of Corporate Fools as official role descriptions in large organizations.
“Business schools need to make more room for people who are willing to bite the hands that feed them: to prick business bubbles, expose management fads and generally rough up the most feted managers. Kings once employed jesters to bring them down to earth. It’s time for business schools to do likewise.”
Now, that’s a powerful call for the creation of Corporate Fools! Dustin stumbled upon an initial job description written by certain D. Verne Morland. Fantastic stuff! Take a look at here.
For the past years I have been supporting Avaaz, a global activism network for a more sustainable and just world. Their intentions are both global and local, and their reach as well. It’s one of the few promotion/subscription emails I found myself regularly endorsing over to friends, a sign of my high esteem to their approach, integrity and trackrecord – Avaaz has been very successful in mobilizing grassroot activist to campaign for the various agenda points it takes on.
The latest campaign – the Global Wake Up Call, itself part of a larger alliance-run campaign called Tck Tck Tck (implying we are running out of time to tackle global warming) – has gathered significant momentum and press attention globally. Below, the 2min digest video representing over 2600 worldwide events held on the 21 September (including in Singapore).
I have long been fascinated by complexity and system thinking; the cognitively stimulating challenges of nonlinear problems and solutions.
Over the past 2 years my interest has taken a new form by looking at simple ways of representing complexity through the visualization of whole-systems, mapping and visualizing the interconnectedness of concepts and data. To give you an idea of powerful visualizations, take a look at http://www.idiagram.com/CP/cpprocess.html
Today, I was browsing through a fascinating example of this, on Visual Complexity.
A group of researches at the EU conducted a study to visualize the most remotest place on Earth by combining a series of maps of the world and cross-checking them with their ease of access through conventional transportation. The maps were created to show how the distribution of people affects their access to resources such as education and medical care, and how we are increasingly pushing wildlife out of even the wildest corners of our planet.
Dustin stumbled upon an initial job description written by certain D. Verne Morland. Fantastic stuff! Take a look at here.
