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Constant Disruption: Continuous Adaptation
https://youtu.be/IoHwTYrEWg8 Coffee With Doc: Revolutionary Philosophy (Video 6 minutes) Constant Disruption: Continuous Adaptation Big environmental problems from every direction are hemming in high consumption economies and societies. We tend to nod in agreement...
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson and Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of Political Violence by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson E. O. Wilson is professor emeritus from Harvard, originally renowned as the world’s foremost expert on ants. He’s an entomologist, beyond that a naturalist, and beyond that a student of the human condition, still vibrant...
Business Uncertainty and Compression Thinking
https://youtu.be/3st-Mb1Z9wo Coffee With Doc - Compression Thinking (Video 7 minutes) Compression Institute Founder Doc Hall and Filmmaker Ethan Berry talk about Compression Thinking. Business Uncertainty and Compression Thinking Ours is a time of great uncertainty,...
Wisdom Keeper: One Man’s Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People, by Ilarion Merculieff
What We're Reading, by Doc Hall: Wisdom Keeper: One Man's Journey to Honor the Untold History of the Unangan People, by Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff Merculieff is now Elder at Large of the Tribes of Alaska. From the age of 4 his tribe, the Unanagan, marked him for that...
How can we organize to more effectively improve quality of life while using drastically less resources and taking other measures to help nature regenerate?
https://youtu.be/oDErz5uPtCg Leadership for Learning (Video 5 minutes) Vigorous Learning Organizations are Key. A Vigorous Learning Organization is one base of the program of the Compression Institute. The other is Compression Thinking. A Vigorous Learning...
Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future, by Richard Norgaard and Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems, by Alexandra Stein
Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future, by Richard Norgaard This book was recommended by Craig Lindell, who is frequently on our teleconference calls. It turned out to be as good as Craig described. Richard Norgaard...
What Do We Mean by Compression?
https://youtu.be/2tGbeG5FETk Doing Business Like Nature (Video 8 minutes). What Do We Mean by Compression? Compression is intended to expand our thinking dealing with the big squeeze on both us and the planet. There’s a dichotomy here: expand thinking; compress our...
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent. Jeremy Lent was founder and CEO of a software company in the Bay Area, and then become founder of the Liology Institute, seeking a way out of our environmental problems. The...
Tribute to Loren Cole, Inquiring Systems Inc., and Loren Cole’s Eco-Principles
https://youtu.be/erKnbDJxykM Tribute to Loren Cole, Inquiring Systems Inc. (Video 4 minutes). Loren Cole’s Ecosystemological Principles. Loren Cole is probably the most accomplished environmental activist you have never heard of. Loren’s organization, Inquiring...
Implementation Aspects of an Ecosystems Approach, by S. Loren Cole and Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays, by Paul Kingsnorth
Implementation Aspects of an Ecosystems Approach, the Conservation of Natural Resources Program, University of California at Berkeley, 1969-1972; doctoral dissertation, by S. Loren Cole, 1975. Having peered into a number of doctoral dissertations, I began this one...
Growing Grass
https://youtu.be/5VuBcmjXdQU Lawn as Sanctuary (Video 5 minutes). Growing Grass. A century ago, John Maynard Keynes and other economic notables predicted that mechanical automation would soon let us all have a lot more free time. It hasn’t worked out that way. What...
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce and The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction by Richard Bookstaber
The Retreat of Western Liberalism by Edward Luce. Edward Luce is British, and currently the bureau chief for the Financial Times in Washington, DC, but his reporting is primarily political. Prior assignments around the world give Luce an international perspective, so...
Leadership of Learning
https://youtu.be/YFafrYQEyKQ Leadership of Learning (Video 5 minutes). Vigorous Learning: In a world of meaningless management clichés, any organizational leader will say that people in her organization are learning. But how fast and about what? Every failure is a...
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey West
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey West. Geoffrey West is Distinguished Professor and the former President of the Santa Fe Institute. He is a theoretical...
Glocalization and Circular Economies
https://youtu.be/yDSugEjZNNI Coffee With Doc: Glocalization (Video 3.75 minutes). “Glocalization” is a hybrid word: global + local; implying global awareness and learning, but action at a local level. This term is uncommon, but not new. It describes many movements...
The Symphony of Profound Knowledge by Edward Martin Baker and Political Economy and the Unitive Principle by T. Collins Logan
The Symphony of Profound Knowledge by Edward Martin Baker Baker, now retired, was a staff executive with Ford Motor Company who orchestrated Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s interactions with that company, and he was close enough to Deming in other settings that he came to...
E-Corps – A Framework for Thought?
https://youtu.be/qv0yFKLvru4 Coffee With Doc: E Corp (Video 4 minutes) E-Corps – A Framework for Thought? An E-Corp is an Earth Corporation, an Eco Corporation, or an Environmental Corporation, however you wish to interpret the E. The idea is the brainchild of Mark...
The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy by Gerald F. Davis and Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev
The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy by Gerald F. Davis Gerry Davis is a professor of sociology in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has long studied the effects of finance on society, and he carefully...
A “No BS” Society?
https://youtu.be/ueGN2a3cJR4 Conferencing With Doc (Video 7 minutes). In prior posts, we have proposed that the purpose of a society and its economy is “to preserve life – all life – indefinitely.” Making money is not that objective, and obsession with money confuses...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth If you follow economic news and have not heard of Kate Raworth, chances are you will. Doughnut Economics is more than a book; it’s a budding one-woman movement. Kate is a British...