Author: Peter Bruce-iri
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The Inner Development Goals
Climate Action Tai Tokerau has set up a Whangārei IDG Community Hub, joining more than 700 other hubs globally. A group of Europeans established the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) based on the realisation that we will not achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Indeed, for many of the goals, we are going…
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U.N. 2.0 – The Real U.N.
Several agencies of the United Nations do great work globally. And there are more. The Security Council – a fundamental flaw But there is a fundamental flaw in the UN – the Security Council – that turns out to be not that secure at all. The UN and its predecessor were born out of the…
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Global risks and the meta-crisis
The World Economic Forum’s assessment of Global Risk is based on a survey of 1,490 leaders. The risks are grouped into five categories, but to me they all look to be created by humans – including the top risk, extreme weather. Note that these risks focus on material crises so tend to have an economic…
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Trust, covid and climate
A lack of trust slows progress acting like a tax, whereas in a high trust environment, things can happen faster. So claims Stephen Covey jnr. in his book The Speed of Trust. Two of the wicked problems that face us now, covid and climate change, reveal the importance of trust. Covid and trust In my…
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How outrospective are you?
Outrospection is about shifting from introspection to a more external focus. Roman Krznaric labels the 20th Century as the Age of Introspection with the Freudian revolution popularising “the inward gaze, especially the idea of solving personal problems by delving into the inner, unconscious world of our childhood, dreams and forgotten memories”. [1] Do we spend…
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Redefining management for the 21st Century
Management texts do a brilliant job of categorising and detailing management thinkers – the people that have shepherded or at least recorded the impressive rise of industrialisation in the 20th Century. Industrialisation generated unprecedented material advances for us. The down side is the impact on the environment and the ossification of management practice. I have…
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Positioning the economy
The economy has a privileged place in contemporary life. Economic metrics are reported a little like the weather and any politician who wants to be elected has to bend the knee to the hegemony of economics. A healthy economy is typically prioritised over other aspirations. That is thinking for yesterday’s world. For most of our…
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Teacher or midwife?
“One of the only places operating largely as it did more than 50 years ago would be the local school.”[1] That was written in the early days of the Internet, and the pace of change is accelerating – is education keeping up? Otto Scharmer’s book Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-systems to Eco-Systems enable…
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Growing vegetable and fruit consumption in Northland
My colleague Connie Atkinson and I have worked with Daniela Johnson and Ngaire Rae from Manaia PHO to develop a discussion document Growing Vegetable and Fruit Consumption in Northland. The document is prompted by the need to reverse the rising tide of diet-related interest. It is also motivated by the desire to support local fruit and…
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