Public discourse has descended into the shallows. Where is the space left for citizens to engage in deeper deliberations about their future?

• Read Time : 4 mins

• Tags
• the China story
• public discourse
• large-scale transformation
• Think Long Committee for California
• books
• Systems Thinking
• Deep listening

In the relatively short time since it became independent in 1965, Singapore has made giant strides. The country illustrates well the power of local systems solutions, purpose-driven networks, and inducing all parts of the government and all stakeholders to work together

• Read Time : 8 mins

• Tags
• large-scale transformation
• Urban Planning
• purpose-driven networks
• Systems Thinking
• Deep listening
• local solutions

Great ideas are built on a base of hard work and many small insights from a range of observations

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• liberal studies
• multi-disciplinary thinking
• continuous learning
• Systems Thinking
• innovation

There is much good work, experiences and knowledge that exist in the world, ready to be tapped into and adapted to the firm’s context and prepare the firm for the future

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• continuous learning
• Systems Thinking
• Learning Culture

Complex societal issues require diverse set of capabilities—which reside in a variety of business and civil society organisations. When they come together as a self-coordinating network, they can create collective impact

• Read Time : 5 mins

• Tags
• purpose-driven networks
• collective impact
• Systems Thinking
• societal platforms

How Facebook’s top leadership is dealing with the deeper issues of declining trust, why liberal studies matter, and building purpose-driven networks

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• Mark Zuckerberg
• liberal studies
• purpose-driven networks
• Systems Thinking
• liberal arts
• Facebook

Ethics can be learnt, though it may be considered difficult to teach. What matters is the kind of experiences young managers are exposed to. B-schools and firms play a crucial role in shaping their thinking through such exposures

• Read Time : 5 mins

• Tags
• business ethics
• b-schools
• Systems Thinking
• business education
• Leadership Training

Merely copying an idea will not solve a problem. Like product innovators, policy innovators too have to keep the users and their environment in mind

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• Robert Cialdini
• b-schools
• China
• user centric
• Bill Gates
• Systems Thinking
• Alex Tabarrok
• business ethics
• Rene Girard
• policy making

Two factors are causing a rethink on value systems: environmental degradation and shifts in political power that reflect the voice of the disenfranchised. This new thinking will have to come from new coalitions of social thinkers, practitioners, academics, politicians and corporates

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• ethics
• b-schools
• Systems Thinking
• business ethics
• Deep listening

For ground-breaking innovation, keep the user at the centre, and get a good cultural understanding of the actual place where your product will be used

• Read Time : 3 mins

• Tags
• Design thinking
• local solutions
• Embrace Innovations
• Urban Planning
• Innovation
• Systems Thinking
• universal healthcare