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Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Society, Politics & Law

Peter Tuddenham On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...change and teaching and learning transformation supported by new technologies; clients included the US Department of Defense and other US Government Agencies. He cofounded the College of Exploration in 1991. This largely all online not-for-profit educational project has developed programs on co-exploring leadership, environment, and technology. Nearly 20,000 educators,...
Make your clothes count
Nature & Environment

Make your clothes count

...change. Ensuring consumers realise there is no reason for any item of clothing to end up in landfill – because it can all be re-used, donated or recycled is vital in reducing the impact our clothes have on the environment. Check out the Love Your Clothes website for hints and advice on how you can get the most out of your wardrobe. Love Your Clothes was developed by...
Assisted dying or non-assisted living?
Society, Politics & Law

Assisted dying or non-assisted living?

...changed only a little regarding conversations about withholding life-prolonging treatment. Last time they were dismissive; this time they were embarrassed. The only advice they volunteered was that keeping him on a drip was “… not a long-term solution…” the “tion” resonating like a bad bout of tinnitus. The rest of the necessary information I extracted through...
Colour in Byzantine Art
History & The Arts

Colour in Byzantine Art

...change in Byzantine style and iconography was excruciatingly slow. Similarly colour, while able to add a dimension of variation in certain scenes, was not totally independent from theological debates and scrutiny. The relative limited repertoire of scenes – and to an extent palette - in Byzantine art reflect Christian beliefs and are not a manifestation of the...
Relationships at work
Money & Business

Relationships at work

...changing the culture of the workplace so that people have greater freedom to determine their own schedules and boundaries. Susan Dominus investigates this issue in her article for the New York Times “Re-thinking the Work-Life Equation”. There is often a conception that people will use work to make up for dissatisfaction at home and vice-versa. Here, a successful...
Living with Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living with Disability

...changed their lives. An introduction to health and social care Professor Joanna Bornat of the K101 course team gives an overview of The Open University course. Living with MS: the battle for funding The long process of assessing, awarding and allocating funds for necessary specialised accomodation. Housing journeys: Lyn's story A lifetime's personal experience of...
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Systems Practice case study - The CEO
Money & Business

Systems Practice case study - The CEO

...change. We needed new staff badly. We are a small consultancy firm in a specialised niche market and we had taken on more work than we could cope with. Most of us felt exhausted and burnt out, despite being excited by what we were doing. We also had ambitions to move into a new and important market sector and needed to build our capacity to do it. Initial recruitment...
Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...change the outcome of the election...[A giant ballot box placed in Bristol promoting participation in the 2014 European Elections] You may have missed it but there’s a General Election taking place in the UK on June 8th. Now, it is not my intention to tell you how to vote. I’ve previously suggested that we might want to think about a more compassionate politics, and...