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In a messy world, there is not much popular sense about that thing called the ‘economy’. Some never consider it, some are happy to let the ‘free market’ do its thing, and others are well aware that our current economic system is broken. But there is an alternative – the social economy. And we’ve all got a role to play in helping it grow. Read more
The left is loosing.
We throw our hands in the air in despair and disbelief and ask why? How is it possible that when we ask the public what they want, they choose Trump and Brexit?
But they didn’t choose Trump and Brexit – they chose ‘not this’. Not more of what I have now, because it’s not working for me. They voted for change.
And that offer of change was sold using very simple stories, based on deep emotional truths.
Both the Trump and Brexit campaigns used very clever communication. Read more
Today we woke up to a shocking new reality. The UK public has voted to leave the European Union. How was it ever within the realm of possibility that we would end up here? Read more
The most entrenched social challenges of our times will only be solved when people and organisations work together – across sectors, across borders and across cultures (local and global). We know this. But while people and organisations have been collaborating for years in many different forms, there has been less embedding of frameworks that enable collaboration to generate significant impact. Collective impact offers one approach with potential, but how exactly do we make it work here? Our recent research on collective impact in the UK offers some suggestions.
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