If the idea of a conceptual emergency seemed original when it was introduced in the first edition of this booklet, it now appears inescapable. Brought on by the global credit crunch and the collapse or effective nationalisation of so many familiar institutions (HBOS, Lehman Brothers, Woolworths...), we face a fresh crisis of faith, as the instability of our previous perceptions of identity, morality, cultural coherence and social position is revealed. In a world where we are losing our collective bearings, we urgently need leadership inspired by fresh and insightful thinking. This little book provides a remarkable amount of both. The authors are writing under the banner of the International Futures Forum (IFF), an innovative and forward-thinking group that has inspired many communities to respond powerfully to severe social and economic challenges. Ten Things records IFF's learning over seven years on how to take more effective and responsible action in a world we do not understand and cannot control. This second edition has been expanded and updated with seven inspirational case studies from around the world, generated by IFF's work. Insightful yet playful, compact, readable and touchingly illustrated, this is a gem of a book. It will appeal to managers and organisational and political leaders but also to environmental campaigners, social psychologists and educationalists.

Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency

Politics & Social Sciences

Leicester, Graham

O'Hara, Maureen

Social Sciences

Triarchy Press Ltd

Transformative Innovation in Education

Triarchy Press

In his 1980 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, the psychologist Carl Rogers contemplated the future. He described those who would usher in this new era as people with the capacity to understand, bring about and absorb a paradigm shift. He added: "I have an uneasy feeling about this chapter... It is a beginning, an outline, a suggestion... I believe that what I am saying here will some day be fleshed out much more fully, either by me or someone else." Maureen O'Hara and Graham Leicester are uniquely qualified fleshers-out. They draw on their own extensive research and practical experience observing some of today's most successful cultural, political and business leaders to explore the competencies that can best help us navigate the 'blooming, buzzing confusion' of the 21st century. They conclude that these are innate and within reach of all of us - given the right setting, plenty of practice and some gentle guidance. But they are seldom seen because they are routinely undervalued in today's culture. That must change, the authors insist, and this book is intended to begin that change. Theodore Hesburgh, President Emeritus of Notre Dame University, once said that leadership demands certainty: "You cannot blow an uncertain trumpet." On the contrary, argue Leicester and O'Hara, we must all learn to play the uncertain trumpet like virtuosos. It is an image that conveys the subtle discipline required of 'persons of tomorrow.' "They are the people already among us who inhabit the complex and messy problems of the 21st century in a more expansive way than their colleagues... They dance at the edge."

Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century

Business & Money

Economics

This is the second edition of a book first published in the spring of 2009. Since then it has gone through a number of reprints. Its message has resonated with readers around the world: given the right kind of guidance and support, our institutions of education are perfectly capable of instigating the kinds of radical changes they need to make in order to prepare our young people for an uncertain future. The authors can say this with some confidence because the insights, tools, suggestions and recommendations in the pages of Transformative Innovation in Education are rooted firmly in practical experience. The 'three horizons' framework on which it is based allows everyone free rein to share their concerns about the present system, to admit deeper aspirations that might be frustrated or under-realised today, and to design a 'second horizon' transition strategy to shift the system in that direction. This is not 'blue skies visioning' but hard-headed engagement with often uncomfortable facts about changes in the real world. But it also allows space for inspiration. In partnership with the Scottish inspectorate of schools, Education Scotland, IFF worked with a wide variety of educationalists, practitioners, policy makers and others to explore how transformational change might be achieved. As a result, IFF has developed significant new resources to support transformative innovation in a highly decentralised, bottom-up, system-wide approach. Powerful frameworks for moving from insight to action developed by Jim Ewing are described in a substantial new addition to the original text on 'practical approaches to transformation'. The permissive policy framework set in Scotland by Curriculum for Excellence, which invites transformational change in the education system, has now attracted positive attention in different parts of the world - particularly the US, Asia and Australia. But the question remains: how can we make it work? How can government and other agencies best support a permissive programme of radical innovation in education? How can schools themselves take the lead? This book explains how. It tells a story in six sections: • a widespread international story of disappointment in educational reform • the three horizons framework for thinking about longer-term transformational change • the limitations of international models of 'standards-based reform' • developing a transformative framework in Scotland • an outline of the tools and processes that are shifting the Scottish system into the future • recommendations for a policy framework to encourage transformative innovation in education:'making shift happen'.

Transformative Innovation in Education: A Playbook for Pragmatic Visionaries (Second Edition)

Education & Teaching

Stewart, Denis

Bloomer, Keir

Ewing, Jim

Schools & Teaching

Innovation is a necessity in a changing world. But what kind of innovation? 'Sustaining innovation' props up and temporarily fixes structures and processes that are failing-but does little for the longer term. 'Disruptive innovation' shakes things up in a way that can be welcome in the commercial sector, but is seldom wanted elsewhere. Typically, disruptive initiatives offer only short term impact or are eventually 'mainstreamed' to help sustain existing systems. That is particularly true in the public, social, cultural and civic sectors where no natural patterns of renewal are in place. Only 'transformative innovation' can deliver a fundamental shift towards new patterns of viability in tune with our aspirations for the future. This pocketbook offers a first stand-alone practical guide to how to realize transformative potential at scale. It offers six elements for policymakers, funders and innovators: Knowing: how to expand our sense of what constitutes valid knowledge to become more comfortable with complexity; Imagining: how to conceive, develop and design transformative initiatives to carry a group's longer term aspirations; Being: how to organize for action, manage the process, and sustain the people involved over time; Doing: how to introduce the new in the presence of the old, enroll others and figure out what to do when you don't know what to do; Enabling: how to construct a policy framework for long term transition and provide smart financing to match; Supporting: how to develop systems and structures to support a culture of renewal in our public, social and civic systems. It concludes with an invitation to join a growing community of transformative innovators around the world - a network of hope in powerful times. [Subject: Business, Economics, Public Policy, Innovative Policy, Administration]Ëœ

Transformative Innovation: A Guide to Practice and Policy

Management & Leadership

In his 1969 essay, The World of Tomorrow and the Person of Tomorrow, thepsychologist Carl Rogers looked ahead to the volatile, uncertain, complexand ambiguous (VUCA) world we inhabit today. He suggested that living insuch a world would require a whole new set of competencies - demonstratedalready by the 'persons of tomorrow' he saw around him even then.In Dancing at the Edge, Maureen O'Hara and Graham Leicester pick upthe thread fifty years on. Drawing on extensive research and their own wideexperience, they map the 'powerful times' in which we live, the 21st-centurycompetencies required to thrive in this complexity and how to discover anddevelop them in practice. They identify:* Three emergencies: real, conceptual and existential* Three potential responses: denial, collapse and transformation* Three literacies: psychological, cultural and epistemicThese literacies - or ways of reading the landscape - open the door toour 21st-century competencies, which are innate, relational, and will developthrough practice in a supportive organizational or social setting.The picture that emerges is complex but remarkably clear andsurprisingly hopeful - even exhilarating. Organizations of every sort frombusinesses to schools and healthcare, from government bodies to NGOs,can create the conditions, offer the support and provide the context withinwhich engaged, aware, passionate and compassionate people can rise abovedenial and take on the challenges of today's powerful times.This is a handbook for anyone aspiring to develop their 21st-centurycompetencies and for any organization hoping to cultivate the persons oftomorrow in its midst.

<div>Innovation is a necessity in a changing world. But what kind of innovation? 'Sustaining innovation' props up and temporarily fixes structures and processes that are failing-but does little for the longer term. 'Disruptive innovation' shakes things up in a way that can be welcome in the commercial sector, but is seldom wanted elsewhere. Typically, disruptive initiatives offer only short term impact or are eventually 'mainstreamed' to help sustain existing systems. That is particularly true in the public, social, cultural, and civic sectors where no natural patterns of renewal are in place. Only 'transformative innovation' can deliver a fundamental shift towards new patterns of viability in tune with our aspirations for the future. This pocketbook offers a first stand-alone practical guide to how to realize transformative potential at scale. It offers six elements for policymakers, funders, and innovators. Knowing: how to expand our sense of what constitutes valid knowledge to become more comfortable with complexity; Imagining: how to conceive, develop, and design transformative initiatives to carry a group's longer term aspirations; Being: how to organize for action, manage the process, and sustain the people involved over time; Doing: how to introduce the new in the presence of the old, enroll others, and figure out what to do when you don't know what to do; Enabling: how to construct a policy framework for long term transition and provide smart financing to match; and Supporting: how to develop systems and structures to support a culture of renewal in our public, social, and civic systems. It concludes with an invitation to join a growing community of transformative innovators around the world - a network of hope in powerful times.</div>

Transformative Innovation: A Guide to Practice and Policy for System Transition

We live in powerful times. A rolling crisis that is both real (there are consequences), conceptual (horribly complex to grasp in its multiple dimensions) and existential (shaking the inner foundations of our worlds). These emergencies are not distinct: they are all connected and now hunt in packs. But it is the existential emergency, the human consequences of living in powerful times, that now dominates the scene. That is the subject of this booklet. For it is in the boundless potential of the human system, the ways in which we choose to live our lives in patterns of relationship with other lives, that our hopes for recovery and renewal ultimately lie. 'Spaces for Growth' is both a manual and a rallying call. It explores the settings and the environments we need to discover and to create, as hosts and guides, to enable individuals, groups, organisations, communities, institutions, human beings in all formations to expand, to develop and to grow. In this way we will, together, rise to the occasion.

Spaces for Growth: Learning our way out of a crisis

O'Hara PhD, Maureen

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Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency

Transformative Innovation in Education

Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century

Transformative Innovation in Education: A Playbook for Pragmatic Visionaries (Second Edition)

Transformative Innovation: A Guide to Practice and Policy

Dancing at the Edge: Competence, Culture and Organization in the 21st Century

Transformative Innovation: A Guide to Practice and Policy for System Transition

Spaces for Growth: Learning our way out of a crisis