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The resiliency imperative
I’m reading a very interesting book by the title of “Resilience: Why things bounce back” by Andrew Zolli and Anne Marie Healy. I’m only a few chapters in, so this isn’t a recommended read yet. It’s...
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Social Business.
What the heck’s a social business? First of all, we’ve started to realize that the traditional corporation, one that is designed to maximize profits for shareholders, isn’t fixing many of the problems...
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For Sale….diabetes. With a side order of irony.
I’m not sure how many people take the time to look around a store when they go in, or whether we’re all so busy now that we just go in, buy what’s on our list, try not to make idle chatter with the...
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What’s wrong with the world is what’s wrong with us.
I’m not one to jump on a media bandwagon or blog much about the “news”. Particularly because there’s enough banal trivia floating through Twitter, Facebook and traditional media outlets to more than...
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There’s no such thing as a “senseless shooting”.
There are shootings that don’t make sense to me. And probably you. And to most rational people. But there’s really no such thing as a “random act of violence”, except in the eyes of the victim (and...
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Hyper-Individualism and the loss of Empathy
I threw these two ideas out there in the last post (There’s no such thing as a senseless shooting). Empathy is what we need….individualism on overdrive seems to be what we’re getting. What’s empathy?...
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The Resiliency Workshops
I was serious in the last post, when I said that focusing on Lifeworth over Networth was going to be a goal of mine in 2013. So along with spending a lot of quality time with my wife and son, and...
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The Resilient System: Diversity
As part of my focus on helping create a more resilient world, I’m going to be writing a series of blog posts on what I think are components of resilient systems. The first topic is Diversity. For a...
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The Resilient System: Feedback
Last week I wrote about Diversity vs. Efficiency, and how often in our systems we’re sacrificing the former for the latter. This week I’m going to get into Feedback a little bit. Not the dreaded “sit...
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The problem that isn’t.
At a recent teacher’s conference in Edmonton I asked some workshop attendees if addiction is a problem. Everyone in the room nodded and raised their hands. If I asked you “is climate change a problem?”...
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Information? No thanks.
As Judy Stewart (a long time steward of all things environmental in Cochrane) put it recently, the silly season has begun. Unfortunately, it’s actually been around for quite some time around a few hot...
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Good to the last drop.
I had the privilege of attending a “Water Conversation” last night here in Cochrane. It brought together a range of interested folks (from normal citizens to town employees and businessman) to chat...
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The End of Growth
It’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed a book on here. Probably because I don’t have a helluva lot of time for reading these days. I’m about half way through “The End of Growth” by Jeff Rubin, former...
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I’m not a tragedy blogger. Thoughts on Boston.
And yet, sometimes I feel compelled to use the space created by a tragedy to discuss important topics. It seems that the only time these topics come up is in response to tragic events. My post on the...
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Structured (dys)Function
Do you remember H1N1? In 2009/10 it caused 17,000 deaths across the world. Vaccines were rushed to market and inoculations en-masse took place. And at my place of employment we instituted a standing...
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ConnectED: Hope for Education
I had the distinct pleasure recently of joining many passionate and dedicated teachers from across the country at the annual ConnectED conference, hosted at the Calgary Science School. The ConnectED...
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The status quo
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to actually move systems in the direction that we want them to go. I’ve written previously about things like transit in Cochrane, so I’ll use that as an...
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A deafening response to a quiet crisis
Alberta was recently hit with the worst flooding in anyone’s memory. Much has been written (and much will be written) about the obvious things, the bridges that were washed out, the hippo’s at the zoo,...
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Masquerading as a newspaper
It looks like the political season is starting to ramp up here in Cochrane, with municipal elections looming in the fall. It was nice to see that, despite being on holidays for the past two weeks, I...
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Cochrane’s Sacred Cows
Warning: This post is longer than most and contains a lot of words. Well, we’re heading into the homestretch of the “silly season” in municipal politics, that time when the papers and facebook feeds...
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