Hungry? Eat… Niels Teunis invites us to kill the mission statement and find three words instead. Dervala Hanley tweets the death of the MBA. Ria Baeck republishes Fancis Moore Lappe on wyas systems can redesign food systems Johnnie Moore blogging Dave Snowden blogging some interesting peer learning in the hotel industry. Aftab Erfan blogs about a Deep Democracy event in South Africa. Peggy Holman is blogging her new book on Patterns of Change and looking for comments Henry Mintzberg on the failure of management training
When I read this Neruda poem, I thought of my wife. Sonnet XVII I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom and carries hidden within itself the light of those flowers, and thanks to your love, darkly in my body lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without …
I’ve been in Portland Oregon this week working with Native community radio stations from across the United States on an exciting capacity development project. While here I’ve been enjoying the city. Portland, Seattle and Vancouver really are sister cities. We share the same climate, the same eco-systems and concerns, the same look and feel. The histories of the three cities are intertwined by the people that have lived on this coast since the cities were founded. The Columbia is the furthest south outlet of Canadian freshwater on the west coast, so in many ways, what …