| A Very Beautiful Place - more>> |
Huddinge, in Greater Stockholm, is the first municipality in Sweden to get its own urban walking map. The map will combat increased sedentary living and growing waistlines by encouraging people to get out and walk more. And for planners, highlight the importance of walking as environmentally friendly transport. Hopefully, Huddinge’s 89,000 inhabitants and planning departments will be in better shape and better prepared to meet the effects of rising fuel costs as oil becomes scarcer |
| Renewable Collaboration - more>> |
| Authenticity is not the same as individualism. It is both about finding yourself and about finding your true place in our community. In order to address the issues we face as a society one of the things we will have to do is to pull together. Here is an example from Neil’s work. |
| Meeting needs - more>> |
Meeting design is not something, which seems to get a great deal of recognition but it is something Neil Crofts came to understand during his time at Razorfish. "We had so many meeting and had such a lot to achieve in them that designing the meetings using specific activities and break out sessions to achieve particular outcomes and build towards a final objective became crucial. Since then I have learned far more about meeting design and we now offer it as part of the Authentic Guides service. |
| Control organisation - more>> |
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and hoping for a different result"
- Rita Mae Brown
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| Creating meaningful, dynamic and innovative organisation - more>> |
Many people are talking about making businesses more sustainable, few are actually grabbing the bull by the horns and making it happen. Among those few are Dominic and Suzanne and their work with HP Bulmer.
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| The ideas unlimited guide to just doing it - more>> |
What’s the idea?
- Commercial organizations need passion, ingenuity, teamwork, initiative and spark from people at work
- Social and Environmental projects are looking for relationships with and support from commercial organisations
- Individuals are seeking a greater sense of purpose – in their work and in other parts of their life
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| Why dance is good for creativity and business - more>> |
Imagine a group of men and women moving freely to music as part of a training course or before a strategic planning session. The dancing raises their spirits, connects them together as a team, stirs the pot of individual and collective creativity, and brings inspiration and dynamism into the room. This is the power of Transformational Movement.
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| The council of change agents - more>> |
What really makes a change agent become a change agent? Are they born, made, or maybe genetically engineered. Paul's fantasy piece speculates what a meeting between four great change agents might be like (Gandhi, Schindler,Lennon and Mandella), and comes up with some insights as to what the ingredients of a true change agent might be.
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