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Mary Catherine Bateson on the sustainability of ideas
“It might be useful to ask about the sustainability of ideas, just as we have begun to ask about human activities, for sustainability carries with it the notions of resilience and variation over time… [We need] to know more about what it takes to get a new idea integrated into an existing system of ideas […]
Leading Our Own Lives First: Ageless Lessons from Mary Catherine Bateson’s Composing A Life
Real leadership means making good choices for ourselves, big or small, on a daily basis and over time about how we live in the world. Choices that we can believe in, that feel authentic and true for us as women and creative people; choices that often go against the grain and feel difficult; and choices that as much as possible, sustain us individually as we seek to do good work in the world.
The Future (and Present) of Work Is All About Systems
Originally published at Boston.com on January 19, 2012 In my last blog, Forays into the Future of Work, I ask, “What skills and qualities will serve us in the future?” and offer the idea that the world needs connectors. It’s a simple enough idea to grasp, but it’s worth exploring because it can easily get lost […]
Forays into the Future of Work
Originally published at Boston.com on January 6, 2012 Over on the NewProsperity blog in December, I had the privilege of posting a piece by fellow Bostonian Nathan Rothstein on what he hopes for the future of education. Nathan reflects on the importance of financial literacy, civics education, and service for recent grads. Too many young people […]
Grassroots organizing meets participatory leadership
Tuesday Ryan-Hart and Kelly McGowan tell the story of how The Art of Participatory Leadership and Social change gathering (October 2011) came to be and explore the connections between social change work and participatory process. Tuesday offers a new model for social change weaving social justice and participatory process called “co-revelation.” We talk a lot […]
