Change happens when rules are broken; when an upstart group of people rebel against broken systems and rote habits and try something radically different or brand spanking new; and when people have the courage, if not the audacity, to throw away failures and seek a better way to frame and reshape, if not reinvent, howContinue reading “Time to Break Some Rules”
Category Archives: Wicked Questions
Upside Down Thinking: Disrupting the Status Quo
This is the slide deck from the presentation I did at the Poverty Reduction Summit in Ottawa in May 2015. I give custom workshops on Upside Down Thinking. Contact me for more info.
Heretical Propositions: Toward Democratic Philanthropy (Part One)
This is the first installment of a series from a long essay I am writing about philanthropy or more specifically about the need for a major, if not radical shift, toward democratic philanthropy. The essay will be included in a book of exposition and criticism I am writing, currently entitled “Heretical Propositions.” Money can mean a lot of thingsContinue reading “Heretical Propositions: Toward Democratic Philanthropy (Part One)”
Questions We Must Answer to End Poverty
Over my career in the human services sector, I have been a part of many collaborative and cross-sector efforts that were formed to address a critical social problem. In most cases, if not all, the social problem being addressed was interwoven with economics. So, the problem was more accurately a socio-economic problem. As well everyContinue reading “Questions We Must Answer to End Poverty”
