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Firepit DialoguesJune 28, 2019http://lightleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/10b.-Firepit-Dialogues-Leadership-Intro-v1.wav 10a. Light Leadership - Origin Story (1) (1) -
Light Leadership Mythos Audio VersionJune 28, 2019http://lightleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/12.-Light-Leadership-Mythos-Audio-Version.v2.wav
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The More Beautiful WorldJune 28, 2019http://lightleadership.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/13.-The-More-Beautiful-World-Meditation_011819_Edited.mp3
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Why Freedom and Control Aren't The Trade Offs We Think They AreGary HamelMarch 20, 2019In our personal lives, we are masters of paradox, but at work we are often not trusted to balance competing objectives. This must change. We need organizations where freedom and control coexist and where... -
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Gathering of the TribeCharles EisensteinFebruary 25, 2019It's in the Book - The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible (at the end) "The extract is really powerful to explain the larger picture of how we're waking up and coming together... -
What Matters NowGary HamelFebruary 25, 2019This was one of the first books we read that informed our three values of: Transparency, Participation and Meritocracy - we also spoke to Gary Hamel directly at that time. -
Reinventing OrganizationsFrederic LalouxFebruary 25, 2019This was the first introduction to spiral dynamics with respect to the stages of development and organisational design - it helped us to get clear on what was needed for a truly Teal Organisation. -
Trump and a Post-Truth WorldKen WilburFebruary 25, 2019The election of Donald Trump is an evolutionary self-correction that has been decades in the making — a backlash against the failure of the leading edge of consciousness (postmodernism and pluralism) to acknowledge the... -
Power vs ForceDavid HawkinsFebruary 25, 2019The Map of Consciousness is helpful here and a recognition that different emotions have different frequencies of energy and that as we rise in our energetic frequency we have an exponential effect. -
Letting Go - The Pathway to SurrenderDavid HawkinsFebruary 25, 2019This book followed up from Power vs Force and confirms a lot of how we operate -
The Soul of MoneyLynne TwistFebruary 25, 2019This book allowed us all to get into a shared reality about the nature of money right at the beginning -
Introduction to Spiral DynamicsIan MacDonaldFebruary 25, 2019This was the resource we were provided with for the Avalon pre-reading -
The Gene KeysRichard RuddFebruary 25, 2019Particularly Gene Key 55 is a great overview of the whole human story. -
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Reinventing Orgs MapItamar GoldminzMay 9, 2018This beautiful diagram was put together by the folks at the Reinventing Organizations Map Facebook group. I covered in Frederic Laloux’s book Reinventing Organizations in a couple of posts way back in 2014: -
Crypto Beyond Capitalism: Part 2: Money, Utility, and the Symbolic Abstraction of ValueMatthew PirkowskiMay 5, 2018This is the second installment of a long form essay — or short book — outlining my macro perspective on how the emerging crypto ecosystem fits within the greater context of biological, cultural, and economic evolution. I intend... -
The War on Sensemaking | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 22Jordan GreenhallMay 4, 2018What happened when science, economy and the military industrial complex changed focus from making faster plans and bigger bombs to pushing the envelope on the front of deception, manipulation and psyops? -
Epigenetics and Evolution: Bettering Yourself and HumanityBruce LiptonMay 2, 2018For too long, many people have thought that their destiny was controlled by their genes. With advances made in epigenetics, we now know that isn’t the case. Dr. Bruce H. Lipton joins Collective Insights... -
Crypto Beyond Capitalism: The Rise of Distributed ValerismMatthew PirkowskiApril 25, 2018Welcome to the first installment of a long form essay — or short book — outlining my macro perspective on how the emerging crypto ecosystem fits within the greater context of biological, cultural, and economic evolution. I intend... -
Emerge Podcast - Soveriegnty, Resonance and LiminalityJordan GreenhallApril 18, 2018A podcast based inquiry into the next phase of the human experiment. -
FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 50 - Daniel Jeffries - The Evolution of Systems and the Meaning of lifeDaniel JeffriesMarch 31, 2018Exposing ourselves to different ideologies The use of killer robots is the idea Dan has been preoccupied with lately, ever since he saw a semi-fictional video about drones with precision-guided missiles and facial recognition. In order to... -
Monkeys' brains synchronize as they collaborate to perform a motor taskDuke University Medical CenterMarch 29, 2018"""Measuring ICS in humans could also reveal how well groups work together, and even what types of training improve their brain synchrony and teamwork....This could be valuable for any social task that requires the... -
What is the Problem with Social MediaJordan GreenhallMarch 23, 2018It appears that at long last the popular sentiment seems to be boiling with enough intensity to (maybe) do something about the problem of social media. Good. It is high time. But, even if it turns... -
Dominance and Prestige Hierarchies- Episode 15Jordan GreenhallMarch 23, 2018Humans differ from other hominids in that we seem to be hard-wired to seek and give something Joseph Henrich called "prestige" to individuals who seem to have their act together. This might be the... -
FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 49 - Decentralized Governance and IdentityDaniel JeffriesFebruary 26, 2018Today on the show we have Daniel Jeffries, who recently came to prominence because of his Medium articles on blockchain and philosophy. Dan is an author, futurist and thinker. He writes science fiction novels, short... -
“A Glitch in the Matrix” — Jordan Peterson, the Intellectual Dark Web & the Mainstream MediaJordan PetersonFebruary 16, 2018Journalist David Fuller made the first full documentary about Jordan Peterson, and also used to work at Channel 4 News as producer and reporter for over a decade. He takes a close look at... -
The Rivalrous and the Anti-Rivalrous | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 2Jordan GreenhallFebruary 14, 2018I've long considered this conceptual distinction to be one of the most important and least considered in the current environment. I hope this video is at least some what clear. For sure, it raises... -
Why Change Management is an Oxy-MoronGary HamelFebruary 2, 2018Most change programs are belated, convulsive and ineffective. The solution: change programs that are built from the bottom up, give everyone a voice, and are emergent rather than engineered. -
Why We Need a Revolution of The Mind in ManagementGary HamelFebruary 2, 2018At its core, virtually every large organization is a bureaucracy. That’s a problem, because bureaucracies are poorly suited to a world of head-snapping change, unconventional competitors and omnipotent customers. Few of us, though, can... -
Why Experimentation Beats PredictionGary HamelFebruary 2, 2018In a world of head-snapping change, planning is near impossible. To stay relevant, organizations must learn a lesson from biological evolution: experiment relentlessly and let the best ideas win. -
Why Your Organization is an Emotional DeadzoneGary HamelFebruary 2, 2018Management was invented by engineers and accountants, and it shows. Too many organizations view human beings as mere “resources”. Until this changes our organizations will be less energetic, less creative and less resilient than... -
Situational Assessment 2018: the Calm Before the StormJordan GreenhallFebruary 1, 2018This series began in 2015 with an effort to do a broad assessment of the various risks present in the total global environment. Last year (almost precisely 365 days ago), I focused specifically on... -
Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernismJordan PetersonJanuary 17, 2018Channel 4 News’ full, fiery interview with clinical psychologist and professor Jordan B Peterson, whose views on gender have amassed great controversy - and a huge online following. He discusses the pay gap, patriarchy... -
Truth in the Time of Chaos: Full DocumentaryJordan PetersonJanuary 5, 2018Psychologist and professor Jordan Peterson has come to fame, or notoriety depending on your perspective, over the last year. But many of those who found him through his criticisms of political correctness are saying... -
We Are From The FutureMax MarmerJanuary 2, 2018At our community New Years Eve party of about 100 people I was invited to perform in what turned out to be my first live dance performance. I’ll share the video of the live performance... -
"Damn Girl, You’ve Got a High AQ Why Adaptability is More Important Than IQ and EQ"Natalie FrattoJanuary 1, 2018I often think the near future — say 2045 — might look something like this: On the walk back from her high school, Max drops by the corner bodega to pick up a NeuroStim pill — a prescription neuro-plasticity stimulator. She’ll... -
FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 48 - Sovereignty in ChaosJordan GreenhallDecember 29, 2017This is the second half of our interview with Jordan Greenhall of Neurohacker Collective, where he gets into the practical solutions to avoid the global collapse. Game of Thrones and Climate Change Game of Thrones is one great pop... -
New Economics Series: Part IV: Overlapping Models Exploring the Nature and Evolution of EconomicsDaniel SchmachtenbergerDecember 14, 2017Ecology to Economy: It’s reasonable to say that what we call economics started with agriculture and the plough.1 In the hunter gatherer world before that, there was no meaningful surplus possible (the foods available were... -
FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 47 - Why We Need Collective Intelligence During Global CollapseJordan GreenhallDecember 12, 2017If it looks like we love the folks from Neurohacker Collective, that’s because we do. This time we’re bringing on the co-founder and CEO Jordan Greenhall, after featuring his fellow co-founder Daniel Schmachtenberger in four Future Thinkers episodes.... -
Token Sales VisualizationMax GalkaDecember 12, 2017How big is the ICO (aka token sale) market really? It seems like this should be an easy question to answer. After all, blockchains are open data layers that contain a complete record of every transaction ever... -
Blockchain Governance: Programming Our FutureFred EhrsamNovember 27, 2017This post describes why blockchain governance design is one of the most important problems out there, its critical components, current approaches, potential future approaches, and concludes with suggestions for the community. Why Blockchain Governance Matters As... -
Biomimicry Design ExplainedVoxNovember 10, 2017Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour. It didn’t always look like this. Earlier models were rounder... -
In ShadowLubomir ArsovNovember 2, 2017Embark on a visionary journey through the fragmented unconscious of the West, and with courage face the Shadow. From Shadow. Powerful video showing our total enslavement, on all levels. meds, drugs, money, work, political powers,... -
Collective Intelligence is the Root of Human ProgressRaya BidshahriOctober 16, 2017Many of us intuitively think about intelligence as an individual trait. As a society, we have a tendency to praise individual game-changers for accomplishments that would not be possible without their teams, often tens... -
Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis WebinarRay Kurzweil and Peter DiamandisOctober 14, 2017 -
"A new theory of consciousness: the mind exists as a field connected to the brain "Tara MacIsaacOctober 11, 2017The United States joined freedom activists on Feb. 26 to dismiss the results of Cuba's national referendum—which was orchestrated ... -
New Economics Series - Part III - When the System Is the Source of the Problems - Case StudiesDaniel SchmachtenbergerOctober 11, 2017Insofar as economics plays a role in coordinating collective human activity, it can be thought of as a type of collective intelligence system. If that system misaligns the direction of coordination with any aspect... -
Advancing Human SovereigntyDaniel SchmachtenbergerOctober 11, 2017Sovereignty relates to the capacity for and demonstration of good (omni-positive) choice-making. We define sovereignty more formally as the product of sentience, intelligence, and agency. Sentience relates to one’s ability to sense the world (including inner... -
Catastrophic and Existential RisksDaniel SchmachtenbergerOctober 11, 2017Critical Factors Radical unpredictability Anthrocomplexity, multi-system complexity, far-from equilibria complex/ chaotic systems, new (not well understood) technologies, exponential rates of change, unmonitorable distributed catastrophic technology. Broken information ecology: mostly disinformation, intentional disinformation, actual signal intentionally obscured, critical... -
Higher Dimensional Thinking, the End of Paradox, and a More Adequate Understanding of RealityDaniel SchmachtenbergerOctober 11, 2017Think about the way a 3 dimensional object would look from the perspective of a 2 dimensional planar reality. Lets imagine a cylinder. If the plane crossed the cylinder perpendicular to its axis, the... -
7 Thoughts On Crypto After Three Months Down The Rabbit HoleLou KernerOctober 8, 2017Everyone’s ADD, including me. I get attracted by shiny objects. I first noticed Bitcoin as a shiny object in mid-2013. I went down the rabbit hole far enough for The Wall Street Journal to... -
FutureThinkers Podcast - Episode 46 - Winning Humanity's Existential GameDaniel SchmachtenbergerOctober 2, 2017This is our fourth episode with Daniel Schmachtenberger, and as every other time, it left us fascinated and inspired. Daniel is the co-founder of Neurohacker Collective and founder of Emergence Project, a futurist think tank. This is probably our favourite... -
New Hope for Humans in an A.I. WorldLouis RosenbergSeptember 8, 2017Imagine a global "Hive Mind" that can tap the knowledge, wisdom, insights, and intuitions of millions of people, and produce a super-intelligence that is much smarter than any individual person. A new technology called... -
Experience Tribe: The TransitionJordan Greenhall, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Forrest LandryAugust 20, 2017
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Collaborative consumption and peer-to-peer collaborationDaniel Christian WahlAugust 17, 2017The field of collaborative consumption is one of the areas of social innovation that most excites me. Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (2011) offer an introduction to this rapidly evolving approach to participatory culture... -
Joe Rogan interviews Jordan Peterson - talk on Aperspectival Madness in GreenJordan PetersonMay 10, 2017Jordan Peterson is a clinical psychologist and tenured professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. -
Management Theory is Dead. Here's Why.Nick JankelMarch 31, 2017The world is volatile. Change is fast and furious. Data sets are imperfect. Markets are saturated and systems stressed. In this new normal, no product, process or person stays successful for long. This is... -
Understanding the Blue Church (Deep Code)Jordan GreenhallMarch 30, 2017In my Situational Assessment: 2017, I quoted a post from Reddit: “The Blue Church is panicking because they’ve just witnessed the birth of a new Red Religion. Not the tired old Christian cliches they defeated... -
Cut The Bullshit- Organizations with no Hierarchy Don't ExistFrancesca PickMarch 3, 2017Do completely horizontal organizations truly exist? Fueled by growing excitement about self-management, bossless leadership and new governance models such as Holacracy, I increasingly hear large claims about the potential of “flat organizations”, which are... -
Collaboration and empathy as evolutionary success storiesDaniel Christian WahlFebruary 26, 2017We are life. We are nature. We are Universe. Self-reflexive consciousness allows us different perspectives on this ever-transforming and evolving whole we participate in — this all that we are reflections of. We bring forth a... -
Life’s economy is primarily based on collaborative rather than competitive advantageDaniel Christian WahlFebruary 1, 2017A holistic understanding of modern evolutionary biology suggests that life evolves by a process of diversification and subsequent integration of diversity through collaboration (John Stewart in BioSystems, 2014). As our focus shifts from individuals... -
Situational AssessmentJordan GreenhallJanuary 25, 2017In 2015, I took a swing at assessing the shape and state of our global challenges. Looking back, that essay is still well worth a read, but it is high time for an update. While... -
How to Change The World ProperlyJordan PetersonNovember 9, 2016Young people want, rightly, to change the world. But how might this be properly done? Dr Jonathan Haidt recently contrasted Truth University with Social Justice University. Social Justice U has as its advantage the... -
Millenials in the WorkplaceSimon SinekOctober 29, 2016Excerpt of Simon Sinek from an episode of Inside Quest. -
The Way We Learn Today is Just WrongPeter DiamandisJune 20, 2016From A's to Angry Birds In the traditional education system, you start at an "A." And every time you get something wrong, your score gets lower and lower. In the gaming world, it's just the opposite. You... -
Simon Sinek and Marc Coleman on the Future of WorkSimon SinekJune 4, 2016Marc Coleman Founder & CEO of UNLEASH talks to Simon Sinek about the C21 leadership crisis, performance and purpose holocracy and new models for work at UNLEASH Conference & Expo at ExCel London (Formerly... -
Social Coherence and Collective IntelligenceHeartmathMay 29, 2016Researchers understand that high levels of personal coherence in individuals often result in an exceptional states like clarity of thought and emotional composure. Social coherence is a state in which groups of people –... -
Top-Down Solutions Like Holacracy Won’t Fix BureaucracyGary Hamel and Michele ZaniniMarch 22, 2016For all its enemies, bureaucracy is amazingly resilient. Since 1983, the number of managers, supervisors, and support staff employed in the U.S. economy has nearly doubled, while employment in other occupations has grown by... -
Bitcoin as an Experiment in Self-Organizing Collective IntelligenceJordan GreenhallFebruary 16, 2016There have been a lot of conversations about Bitcoin over the years. Is it a currency or an equity or a commodity? Is it a store of value? Is it a “settlement mechanism”? Is... -
An Open Architecture for Self-OrganizationBonnitta RoyJanuary 31, 2016There are three main reasons why organizations are looking for alternative architectures: 1. Agile companies are wanting to scale without losing their agility 2. Large centralized companies are wanting to become more agile — trim management and bureaucratic... -
How Self-Organization Happens: And why you can trust itBonnitta RoyJanuary 25, 2016Values drive all organizational life If you pay attention throughout the day, you will see that your thoughts are constantly floating on waves of shifting values. While your thoughts govern your conscious actions, the underlying values... -
The Future of OrganizationJordan GreenhallAugust 11, 2015Human organizational models have long been limited to a small set of effective approaches. For small organizations with fewer than thirty or forty members we have been able to effectively coordinate group behaviour in... -
Complex Adaptive Systems - Self-OrganizationComplexity LabsJune 2, 2015In this video we will be talking about the process of self-organization within complex adaptive systems and the dynamic interplay between order and entropy that is thought to be required to enable it, we... -
Self-Awareness: Know YourselfGary VeeMay 22, 2015Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of VaynerMedia, a full-service digital agency servicing Fortune 500 clients across the company’s 5 locations. Gary is also a prolific public speaker, venture... -
Attaching Ourselves to a Well-being Economy: Non-rivalrous techniques of GenerativityJordan GreenhallApril 29, 2015Jordan Greenhall is co-founder, former CEO, and current chairman of the Board of DivX Inc., the San Diego company behind the digital data compression application DivX that enabled reasonable quality video transmission over the... -
Lean and Agile Adoption of Laloux Culture ModelAgile4AllMarch 20, 2015See agileforall.com/2015/04/laloux-cultural-model-and-agile-adoption/ for more info. Contact me at peter.green@agileforall.com, or twitter @tptman. Using the culture model described in Fredric Laloux's book Reinventing Organizations, we examine why lean and agile adoption efforts often struggle to realize their... -
Constructing a New NarrativeJordan GreenhallFebruary 5, 2015We are in the process of trying to cultivate a new world. This is a daunting process and oftentimes it seems absurdly ill considered. Yet, reflectionconsistently indicates that it is our task whether we like it... -
The Coming Great TransitionJordan GreenhallNovember 24, 2014Our global civilization is currently undergoing a tremendous set of transitions that will ultimately result in the dismantling of much of the way that we currently live and the construction of a new “civilization... -
Personhood: A Game for Two or More PlayersKevin SimlerJuly 7, 2014Pardon me while I scratch a little itch here in public. I'd like to describe for you a concept that I can see very clearly in my mind. I can't entirely justify its existence or... -
Creating a Future for All of UsLynne TwistNovember 27, 2013For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty and hunger and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability. From working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to... -
The Psychological Price of EntrepreneurshipJessica BruderSeptember 25, 2013Editor's Note: This article won an award in the Magazine Personal Service category in the 2014 Annual Awards Contest of the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. By all counts and measures,... -
A New Story of the PeopleCharles EisensteinApril 6, 2013“A New Story of the People” examines the role that stories play in how we think about ourselves and each other and offers a glimpse at a new emerging story that can help bring... -
Reinventing The Tech of Human AccomplishmentGary HamelMay 22, 2011Watch Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel... -
Start with WhySimon SinekMay 11, 2010Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers --... -
Management Must Be ReinventedGary HamelDecember 30, 2008Innovation and strategy expert Gary Hamel shares his view that "management" itself needs to be reinvented in order to accomodate the new needs of business. As technology has evolved and productivity has increased at... -
Mutiny of the SoulCharles EisensteinOctober 7, 2008A Croatian translation of this article can be found here, a Finnish version here, and a German version here. It is also available in Hungarian. Depression, anxiety, and fatigue are an essential part of a process of metamorphosis that is...
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On Thinking and Simulated ThinkingJordan GreenhallFebruary 16, 2008I would like to explore what I think is a useful distinction between “thinking” and a quite different phenomenon that might be best referred to as a “simulation of thinking”.
