It seems over our history, that we have shifted from hierarchy to egalitarianism over the years, even over a year depending on fishing and hunting seasons. My own research led me to a system in the brain called the 'Dominance Behaviour System (DBS). When you give someone power, they tend to make different decisions, ones … Continue reading Redesigning Human Systems to Be Egalitarian
Imagine this: the frameworks we use for business and leadership today—our strategies, models, and systems—are not fixed truths. They’re just experiments. Experiments in how humans organise, create, and adapt. For 10,000 years, we’ve operated under the banner of compete and control. It's the capitalist ethos—win at all costs, dominate the market, edge out the competition. … Continue reading 💥 Is our obsession with competitive advantage holding us back? 💥
In my role as an ambassador for #AdventureMind I'm delivering a workshop at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) on exploring ways that expeditions can be designed with a focus on mental health and wellbeing. LINK HERE- https://www.rgs.org/in-the-field/explore-festival/explore-symposium I've spent my life immersed in nature and adventure—first as an escape from a challenging home life, … Continue reading 🌍 Designing a Talk for the Royal Geographical Society on Expedition Planning for Mental Health & Wellbeing 🌍
If the world was not as it seems, would those that know ... Tell us? And if they did.... Would we listen? Moreover, ... Would we act? Or carry on hoping that it'll work out in the end? #RebelsWithCause #Resilience #CriticalThinking #MindsetMatters #Awareness #FutureThinking #Adaptability #SelfLeadership
I wrote 'From Mercenaries to Missionaries' with two aims in mind. 1️⃣ To highlight that, like all things in the natural world, businesses move through lifecycles. Every decision we make has impacts—some unintended—that ripple through the complex ecosystems we operate in. 2️⃣ To challenge the prevalent mechanistic mindset dominating the business world, which is too … Continue reading 🌍 From Mercenaries to Missionaries: Embracing Business as a Force for Good 🌍
We’re constantly hearing about groundbreaking advances in AI, but let’s take a step back. These innovations are exponentially more energy-demanding than a simple Google search, and data centres are consuming water at unsustainable rates. 💧 A study by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found that training a single AI model can emit as … Continue reading 🌍 Is Tech Really Our Future Without Radical Economic and Social Change? 🔋🚰
Everything in nature is regenerative, it's nature's modus operandi. Yet, our human systems, aimed at empowering the rich further, create hierarchies, monopolies, and perpetual growth, disrupting this natural lifecycle. As American sociobiologist Edward Wilson remarked: "We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology." I believe the Palaeolithic emotions aren't the problem though. It's the … Continue reading 🌄 Sunday Morning Musings 🌿
