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As an avid yet completely unschooled armchair economist, I am ading my way through Benn Steil’s ‘The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New ...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/an-idea-whose-time-has-gone/

I made good on my threat to read Jared Diamond’s Collapse – I’m delighted to say that it is easier to read than his Guns Germs & Steel. Not that reading about how society’s have chosen wa...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2012/07/01/and-another-thing/

I recently attended a fantastic training seminar presented by Allan Savory in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The Holistic Management course was totally over-subscribe...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2012/05/16/ox-herding-for-your-company/

About 5 years ago, I had the delight of hiking The Otter Trail,  5 days through the remotest parts of South Africa’s coastal region. I chose to walk alone, as I needed the solitude, just commu...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/dont-take-your-hegemony-for-granted/

It dawned on me that the 20th century was the reductionist, mechanistic ‘Age of the Engineer’ The 21st century will be the ‘Age of the Biologist’ We are already very clear that nothing ex...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/end-of-an-epoch/

I realize that there are so many websites & blogs out there, all saying much the same as this – that we need to vision a new future etc etc – but no clear idea on what that looks like. … Co...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/still-here/

Hope holds us back from moving forward. When we hope things will improve, it allows us to stay in a place where we are apathetic. Paralyzed, even. “The Sun’ll come out tomorrow”… sang Lit...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/abandon-hope-youll-feel-so-much-better/

You cannot buy a kidney on the open market, or a liver – unless its comes on a styrofoam tray at the local butcher. You cannot buy a human life, nor sell one. You cannot buy or sell children, e...

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/some-things-should-be-beyond-the-reach-of-financial-markets/

Ask for the meaning of the place. This will lead you to the 'Essence' Continue reading →

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2010/09/25/genius-loci/

Its time for us to take our collective responsibility for the mess we have made - and clean up our mess. Its time to take out the trash. Continue reading →

https://mosstea.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/up-the-organizations/