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Great Lives - Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
This is an inspirational 28-minute podcast from the BBC's Great Lives series, where Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, talks about Donella Meadows, her work, and the seminal systems thinking book "Limits to Growth" The podcast is available from BBC Sounds at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pt9w
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Great Lives - Kate Raworth on Donella Meadows
This is an inspirational 28-minute podcast from the BBC's Great Lives series, where Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, talks about Donella Meadows, her work, and the seminal systems thinking book "Limits to Growth" The podcast is available from BBC Sounds at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pt9w
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 6: Post-Crash Analysis and Preflight Checklist
For this final episode of series 1, I wanted to build on Buckminster Fuller’s idea of our planet – our habitat and life-support system – as being like a spaceship – Spaceship Earth, as he calls it – and building on this idea to use two related models for our discussion: the post-crash analysis and the preflight checklist First we look at the globally used post-crash analysis as a model for...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 6: Post-Crash Analysis and Preflight Checklist
For this final episode of series 1, I wanted to build on Buckminster Fuller’s idea of our planet – our habitat and life-support system – as being like a spaceship – Spaceship Earth, as he calls it – and building on this idea to use two related models for our discussion: the post-crash analysis and the preflight checklist First we look at the globally used post-crash analysis as a model for...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 5: The Sense of Powerlessness at the Heart of Leadership with Dr. Piret Toñurist
Dr Piret Toñurist, Systems Thinking lead at the OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation talks about the sense of powerlessness at the heart of leadership. She discusses how the pandemic has offered an opportunity for change, and what transformation looks like. She characterises systems thinking as a neutral zone where the ideology of what has to be done doesn’t exist. Themed on this...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 5: The Sense of Powerlessness at the Heart of Leadership with Dr. Piret Toñurist
Dr Piret Toñurist, Systems Thinking lead at the OECD’s Observatory for Public Sector Innovation talks about the sense of powerlessness at the heart of leadership. She discusses how the pandemic has offered an opportunity for change, and what transformation looks like. She characterises systems thinking as a neutral zone where the ideology of what has to be done doesn’t exist. Themed on this...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 4: Governance and Cyberspace
John Naughton, tech columnist at The Observer Newspaper, talks about that great Wild West of our time – Cyberspace. From its roots in “permissionless innovation” to the staggering dominance of a very small number of companies over most aspects of our lives, he surveys the absence of governance, and how two effective sovereigns – Apple and Google – have appropriated powers normally associated with...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 4: Governance and Cyberspace
John Naughton, tech columnist at The Observer Newspaper, talks about that great Wild West of our time – Cyberspace. From its roots in “permissionless innovation” to the staggering dominance of a very small number of companies over most aspects of our lives, he surveys the absence of governance, and how two effective sovereigns – Apple and Google – have appropriated powers normally associated with...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 3: Authorising Change at Ground Level with Julian Corner
Where is the power? Julian Corner used a process of local ‘action enquiry’ to bring about effective social change. This in places where, as he puts it, a system of ‘care’ is effectively a system of oppression – siloed, systematised, and more focussed on privileging its own rules than on the value of human care. In this episode he talks about these challenges, and how this ‘action enquiry’ model...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 3: Authorising Change at Ground Level with Julian Corner
Where is the power? Julian Corner used a process of local ‘action enquiry’ to bring about effective social change. This in places where, as he puts it, a system of ‘care’ is effectively a system of oppression – siloed, systematised, and more focussed on privileging its own rules than on the value of human care. In this episode he talks about these challenges, and how this ‘action enquiry’ model...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 2: Progress in the Field of Child Protection with Eileen Munro
‘Professor Eileen Munro turned decades of inadequate child protection on its head with one simple question: are we helping or hindering the front line? In this episode, she reflects on the successes - and revealing failures - of her review into child protection. Eileen covers a lot of ground in a short space of time. It is fascinating. Talking points: Centralised processes can't protect children...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 2: Progress in the Field of Child Protection with Eileen Munro
‘Professor Eileen Munro turned decades of inadequate child protection on its head with one simple question: are we helping or hindering the front line? In this episode, she reflects on the successes - and revealing failures - of her review into child protection. Eileen covers a lot of ground in a short space of time. It is fascinating. Talking points: Centralised processes can't protect children...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 1: Where is the Power?
Why doesn’t government work? Is it the politicians, the civil servants, the political parties? Or is it the system in which they all operate? This episode introduces the experience and current thinking of co-presenter, Ed Straw. We talk about his journey from being an engineering graduate to consulting at the heart of Westminster, how he encountered power and the confusion surrounding it. Then we...
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The Hidden Power Podcast Ep 1: Where is the Power?
Why doesn’t government work? Is it the politicians, the civil servants, the political parties? Or is it the system in which they all operate? This episode introduces the experience and current thinking of co-presenter, Ed Straw. We talk about his journey from being an engineering graduate to consulting at the heart of Westminster, how he encountered power and the confusion surrounding it. Then we...