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Change Management

Towards a Viable Australia

Posted by Ian Colley on April 6, 2010 – 5:32 pm

Early in March, I joined a three day workshop with an incredibly ambitious aim:  “Creative Thinking Forum on Creating a Viable Australia”. The event drew some 60-70 people together from around Australia.

I wondered if we were all crazy.

Yet the process, ‘Design Shop’ created and facilitated by Matt Taylor and hosted at The Difference in Sydney was extraordinary and enlightening.

Matt is an irrepressible 70 yr old, with a mind rich with concepts and processes worked out over a lifetime of engagement with creative practices, coming from an architecture background, but now applying his work across many domains.

We might not have created a viable Australia in a single weekend, but what emerged was a very serious attempt to describe the conditions and processes under which such an aim was even imaginable.

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Be Human

Posted by Chia Moan on August 5, 2009 – 9:39 am
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Chia Moan

Organisations are made up of people. Human, embodied, physical, spirited, flawed beings, who are often exhorted to be efficient (machines), professional (unfeeling), endorse corporate standards (don’t think for yourself) AND be innovative, responsive and forward looking.

When you bring people fully into the workplace with all their passion you start to build the balance sheet on the innovation side. The way people work becomes more energetic and collaborative.
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