Opportunity for change?! In the context of huge anger, frustration and turbulence arising from the death of George Floyd, Barack Obama gave a message about ‘the opportunity of the current situation to awaken us all - to help us all live up to higher ideals’. As the inspirational Wangari Maathai encouraged us, we can all challenge ourselves to make a difference, to take whatever steps we can in relation to this acute situation; and indeed to all the major global challenges that are holding us back from achieving a world where justice, dignity and respect prevail for all.
Perhaps ‘Humanocracy’ is relevant to this? Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini want to propel a movement. One in which ‘organisations are as amazing as the people within them’. They have a new book called ‘Humanocracy’. They reason for a change to traditional power structures that maintain hierarchies that stem opportunities for wider voices to influence and be heard. They argue that in organisations of the future, everyone should ‘be like an activist’ where change emerges from community level; where ‘strategy is an organisational wide conversation’.
Similar to what we believe at Caplor Horizons, they reason that it is about people ‘learning, thinking and acting differently’. They argue that it is time to have a better management model: one in which everyone has the opportunity ‘to be their best and do their best at work’; one in which the core values are about ‘courage, compassion and community’; and with principles that enable ‘experimentation, meritocracy, openness, community building and shared sense of ownership’. Click here to watch a webinar and learn more.
What are we learning from lockdown? Many thanks to everyone that took part in our very constructive and positive get together on Friday to discuss this topic. If you’d like to see a very creative summary that Ben (Oldroyd) kindly drew, click on the image below.
A watershed moment? Click here to read a INSEAD blog by Zoe Kinias and Vinika Rao: they talk about ‘a watershed moment’ and state: ‘the pandemic may disproportionately affect women around the world, but it need not imperil the hard-earned progress toward gender balance’. Click here to read about a webinar that we are holding tomorrow to explore this; and here to register.
Wangari Maathai quote: "if we all do what little we can, collectively we can make a big difference. There are very many little things that we can all do. And even though we think that a particular action at an individual level may be very small, just imagine if it is repeated several million times."
Have a great day!
Rosie, Lorna and Ian