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Category Archives: Meta-level

Creating inspiration

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

The lessons of Inner Leadership are an essential step to delivering sustainable leadership. They bring stability, focus, alignment, and competitive advantage. This is the fourth in a series of eight articles explaining Continue Reading →

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Standup Comedy

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

I recently took a short course in standup comedy. What attracted me was the idea that it might be easier to communicate ideas if we sprinkle them amongst comedy. Here is the result: Continue Reading →

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Making sense of a shifting world

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

To me this gif is a metaphor for the way we make sense of the world. When we are born and as we grow up we learn to make sense Continue Reading →

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What Business Cycles Can Teach Us About Evolution (and vice-versa)

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

We often talk about the need for a paradigm shift, but then we carry on with the same old paradigms, because we know them well and they are comfortable. Here Continue Reading →

Posted in Meta-level, Strategy, The Escher Cycle | Leave a reply

Adding new senses

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

The universe runs from the scale of tiny particles to entire galaxies, but we only see and make sense of the things from a few millimetres to perhaps a few kilometres. More Continue Reading →

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On work and love

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

Freud revealed to us that life is work and love. These two sides of the same coin are what life is all about. But as a culture we find it much Continue Reading →

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The biggest biotech discovery of the century is about to change medicine forever

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

This article in Business Insider explains how biochemists have created a tool that enables them to cut out a particular piece of DNA in human cells and replaced it with another Continue Reading →

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I am not a thing, a noun — I am a verb, a process

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

I found this on googleplus today: “I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not Continue Reading →

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Guardian Strategy, III — Culture and the “ecology of news provision”

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

Another article showing how the thinking in my first book, The Escher Cycle, can be used to make sense of The Guardian’s strategy. This one maps what David Pemsel called Continue Reading →

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The power of “simple rules repeated without end.”

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

Fractals make the world go round, in ways we do not yet appreciate. Here’s a lovely talk by the guy who discovered them. One thing he discovered is that if Continue Reading →

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