Archive for April, 2010

Teaching our kids life literacy - we owe it to them

I spent yesterday out at James Meehan High School at Macquarie Fields and then the Claymore Neighbourhood & Youth Centre talking to some amazingly passionate women and men, courtesy of United Way Sydney.  Their measure of success is that the kids from these very disadvantaged suburbs have positive role models and opportunities to gain literacy […]

From ‘change’ towards ‘development’

A lovely snippet from Russell Ackoff’s Reflections 2002 article:
“Development is an increase in the desire and ability to satisfy one’s own needs and legitimate desires, and those of others“.
This definition supports my quest to move beyond the concept of leadership and behaviour change.  Changing behaviour is problematic because there is usually a positive intention behind […]