"Never wrestle with a pig, you both get muddy, but the pig enjoys it" as the old saying goes. But what if we, secretly, enjoy it too? Or if wrestling with the pig is a safer and more fun option that wrestling with the angry rabid hippo who is next in line? WTAF am I... Continue Reading →
Machiavelli on incumbency and insurgency…
As Mr. Machiavelli said- “It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This... Continue Reading →
The writing of “independent” reports – a flowchart (first draft)
So, working on the creation of the acceptable limits of discourse, and the use of "independent" reports based on economic modeling to set and sustain those limits. Here is a flow chart (first draft). What have I missed?
Of the Anthropocene, types of denial and William Connolly
It's good to have a really good handle on why it is "unravelling" (1). Might help us spot some of the hows of the unravelling before they quite arrive. No averting, that's a 20th century delusion... Anyway thanks to a smart and compassionate friend (who took me out to the coast last Tuesday, when I... Continue Reading →
The line from Stalin to Putin
This from the Big issue in the North 16-22 May Charlotte Hobson, author of The Vanishing Futurist was asked "Can you draw a line between Stalin and Putin? And she replied Varlam Shalamov, the great chronicler of Stalin's gulag observed that it was the mindset of the common criminals that dominated the camps - and... Continue Reading →
Video: What is absorptive capacity?
And here is the script that I more or less stumbled through. So, what is absorptive capacity? According to the seminal 1990 article by Cohen and Levinthal it's "a firm's ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends" Extending this, Zahra and George (2002) say it is... Continue Reading →
Concept fetishism and leather skirts
So a fetish is a god we create and then forget that we created and get down to serious worshipping of. There's a rather good Doctor Who story from 1976, that was going to be called "The Day God Went Mad" but ended up being called "The Face of Evil" that outlines this with added... Continue Reading →
Video: The Greening of Industry/Eco-innovation
More or less the script I burble. Stuff in square brackets didn't get said or referenced, because the damn thing was already 5 and a half minutes... The whole field of “green innovation” is a Rorschach test. We see in the blobs what we want and need to see. Capitalism mutating into something ecologically friendly,... Continue Reading →
Trolling Esso for the shits and giggles.
Oil companies. Doncha just love them? And they spend a lot of time trying to shape the public debate, shape the public mind. BP isn't doing arts sponsorship because they're a charity you know. Shell have been brilliant at their advertising for decades (see this post and this post). Esso (aka Exxon) have some new... Continue Reading →
Video: Issue lifecycles, a not-even-beginner’s guide
First, a public health warning. I am not yet clear enough on the distinction(s) between issue attention cycles and issue lifecycles to make this video. I’m doing it, therefore, to get Shot. Down. In. Flames. Then, if I survive the crash, I will make a – better- sequel. How’s that for dialectic and iterative? Issue... Continue Reading →
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