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Merry Christmas from my family to yours! I wish everyone the best this holiday season, looking forward to the year ahead, 2010 is going to be amazing!
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Archive for December, 2009
Christmas Out West
On December - 23 - 2009
Ongoing blog post of photos taken on my iPhone while I am out west visiting family for the Christmas holidays, December 23, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Updated with the PicPosterous iPhone app
Location: Calgary, AB and Cranbrook, BC
Updated December 28, 2009
Ive been in Cranbrook for almost a week now, and judging from my tweet on Christmas day, it seems that country music is really getting to me. This song by Blake Shelton has been stuck in my head the whole day.
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Failed leadership at Copenhagen 2009
On December - 21 - 2009
Final text of the Copenhagen Accord 2009
From the guardian.co.uk – December 21, 2009
We’re all eco-warriors now after world leaders failed us at Copenhagen
What did the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen achieve? Our governments failed to agree a deal which might have avoided a global catastrophe. They did nothing but take yet another “important first step”. We’ve had nearly two decades of those.
It’s likely that Copenhagen is a long-term disaster for the planet and its people, but it might have another, more immediate consequence for you right now. Your moral obligations might have just changed dramatically. In situations like the one we’re in now, the demand for action shifts from our leaders to us. They missed what might have been our last chance to take to take concerted, worldwide action on climate change, so the rest of us have to do something about it. Their failure means that we’re all eco-warriors now.
The Builder’s Manifesto
Umair Haque, over at the Harvard Business Review, has an excellent post titled The Builder’s Manifesto, that speaks directly to the article from The Guardian above. It is certainly worth reading.
It seems that in order to tackle the most complex of social problems that we face in our world today, we don’t need more leaders… we need builders.
Excerpt from The Builder’s Manifesto below (bold emphasis mine):
What leaders “lead” are yesterday’s organizations. But yesterday’s organizations — from carmakers, to investment banks, to the healthcare system, to the energy industry, to the Senate itself — are broken. Today’s biggest human challenge isn’t leading broken organizations slightly better. It’s building better organizations in the first place. It isn’t about leadership: it’s about “buildership”, or what I often refer to as Constructivism.
Leadership is the art of becoming, well, a leader. Constructivism, in contrast, is the art of becoming a builder — of new institutions. Like artistic Constructivism rejected “art for art’s sake,” so economic Constructivism rejects leadership for the organization’s sake — instead of for society’s.
Builders forge better building blocks to construct economies, polities, and societies. They’re the true prime movers, the fundamental causes of prosperity. They build the institutions that create new kinds of leaders — as well as managers, workers, and customers.
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Avatar – The Movie
On December - 18 - 2009
I went to the midnight screening of the new James Cameron movie, Avatar in 3D, with some friends last night and all I can say is that I walked away from the cinema with my mind blown away. It was more than just a movie, it was an experience.
I would highly recommend that you watch it this weekend, you won’t be disappointed.
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An Introduction to Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change
On December - 15 - 2009
By Adam Kahane – via www.reospartners.com
Beyond War and Peace
Our two most common ways of trying to address our toughest social challenges are the extreme ones: aggressive war and submissive peace. Neither of these ways works. We can try, using our guns or money or votes, to push through what we want, regardless of what others want—but inevitably the others push back. Or we can try not to push anything on anyone—but that leaves our situation just as it is.
These extreme ways are extremely common, on all scales. One on one, we can be pushy or conflict averse. At work, we can be bossy or “go along to get along.” In our communities, we can set things up so that they are the way we want them to be, or we can abdicate. In national affairs, we can make deals to get our way, or we can let others have their way. In international relations—whether the challenge is climate change or trade rules or peace in the Middle East—we can try to impose our solutions on everyone else, or we can negotiate endlessly. These extreme, common ways of trying to address our toughest social challenges usually fail, leaving us stuck and in pain. There are many exceptions to these generalizations about the prevalence of these extreme ways, but the fact that these are exceptions proves the general rule. We need—and many people are working on developing—different, uncommon ways of addressing social challenges: ways beyond these degenerative forms of war and peace.
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