Writing this, one week after my brother died peacefully on his favourite sofa from where, in recent weeks, he had watched endless programmes about cooking, eating food and salvage hunting. Things he would never do again. Why had he become stuck on the sofa watching things he would not do? …

How We Work: Rabbits into Maps of the USA and Crocodiles eating Salmon Skies https://youtube.com/shorts/82HqzKcpdK4?feature=share Too much time in the office chair? Hurrying to get the orders out causing you to bend and lift badly? Going to write this — Doing yoga first thing in the morning is a wondrous hip and back opener. Certainly, yoga will assist with the physical wellbeing. …

BBC today, 5th October 2022 — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63116210 — still the misery is perpetuated. For those with concern for Women’s Rights, the Right to Free Expression and the desire to feel democratic principles working, recent events in Somalia show the continued problems in the Horn of Africa and reflect the growing…

This weekend — New Cross Fire: Artwork to commemorate 14 young people who died — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60084529 Last week, 2022, a further commemoration unveiled https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-60084529 ; it will not bring back lives — but it must contribute to changing attitudes and actions. Watching Steve McQueen’s three part piece Uprising, listening to…

Cones of Sand or Sand Castles? Some years ago, on a beach, making a programme for the BBC, Brian Cox, he of ‘Everything that can Happen does Happen’ fame, had a sand castle and a pile of sand set up next to one another to ask a fundamental question of…

Returning to East Africa, Kenya, from Europe, United Kingdom, England, the geography in how socio-economics and health link together is very apparent. We have heard, felt, the differences in how we are treated across different political entities. How we view this treatment is dependent on who we are. Yes, there…

Reflect, Refract: being Transparent in your own thinking Travelling in the arid Horn of Africa where people have experienced life atop an edge far more difficult to balance on then the majority of us ever have to contemplate, what are the 3 main takeaways for any of us to do? Reflect on what we have Refract, placing ourselves…

The television was on in the Hotel Mansoor foyer, CNN News and Al Jeezera playing as the second aircraft flew into the Twin Towers. People were already talking. Not excitedly but in hushed, worried, tones. Somaliland may have had a decade of independent, relatively successful, development after declaring itself no…

Interesting separation Alex - the separation of normative and exploratory new to me this one. A couple of notes Decision points fitting to inflection points, internal or external nexus of control and how to define influence on the operational environment? Perhaps fit back to the analysis of the organisation - thinking of some organisations with structures and stakeholders entailing even when they are normative they still do not control decision making per se.