Preferential Lobbying
Part 1: Preferential lobbying: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer
Part 2: Preferential lobbying: Money talks … loudly
Part 3: Preferential lobbying: no explicit deals, all unstated understandings. How it works behind the scenes.
Part 4: Preferential lobbying: a scourge on our democracy
Hidden power of systems thinking
Principles for Systemic Government
Arising from our research and analysis when writing The Hidden Power of Systems Thinking, Ray Ison and I developed twenty six principles for systemic governing.
Read moreWhilst we are in the midst of several global crises, we are also in the midst of a huge outpouring of information that provides us with powerful insights and understanding as to their nature and solution. This outpouring arises from many sources – practical, local, economic, systemic, cognitive history, ecological, spiritual, political, philosophic, tax, investment, constitutional, governmental, and more. Their origins may be different and the answers posed vary but we are all ultimately headed for the same place – a far better world where humans live in harmony with our life-support system – the biosphere, where mass inequality in power, wealth and well being is no longer, and governments do their job well every day.
My sense, too, is that this build up of intelligence cannot be contained – all the faster will the dyke crack as organizations and individuals connect and understand the relationships between all these answers. Spurred on by the shock to the world order of Covid-19, even peers of the establishment – from The Economist to the Financial Times and Investors Chronicle – see the writing on the wall and are advocating radical change.
This website is my contribution to this intellectual counter-revolution. My specialisms are systems thinking in practice and systems of governing: why they matter so much, to us all, and how to re-form them.