Spicing our recipes are a wealth of understandings gleaned from
writers and thinkers we hugely respect.
| Who |
Writing |
Thinking |
| Margaret (Meg)
Wheatley www.margaret
wheatley.com
www.berkana.org
|
Leadership and the New Science
A Simpler Way
Turning to one another
|
Through her ground-breaking book back
in 1999, Meg brought us fundamental and practical explanations
of how chaos and complexity work in organisations.
She is an inspirational, warm and straight-forward person
to hear and to meet. Through her foundation the Berkana Institute,
for over 30 years she has been encouraging community conversations
to inspire local leaders to take action. |
| Barry Oshry
www.power
andsystems.com
|
Seeing Systems
Leading Systems
|
From a profound understanding of system
dynamics, Barry shows us what it’s like to be in organisations
at the Top, Middle and Bottom.
He offers us some strategies for dealing with the particular
tensions of each position – knowing that most of experience
all three at different times. |
Barry Johnson
www.polarity
management.com
|
Polarity Management |
Barry demonstrates how many situations
are not problems to be solved, but polarities to manage –
and he shows us how. |
Peter Russell
www.pete
russell.com
|
The Global Brain
The White Hole in Time; From Science to God
|
Pete is a delicious mixture of physicist,
psychologist and philosopher, bringing life-changing thinking
to our understanding of spirituality, ecology, technology and
our fundamental humanity. |
David Grayson,
OBE
www.david
grayson.net
|
Everybody’s Business –
managing risks and opportunities in today’s global society |
David and Romy (Wikima Founder &
Director) have been colleagues since the 1980s when they both
worked with Business in the Community, pioneering the field
of Corporate Social Responsibility.
David, and Adrian Hodges (now at www.iblf.org) have codified
the art and science of CSR in their best seller |
Influences
& passions