INSIGHTS &
INSPIRATION
Quotes that inspire design
INSIGHTS
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“One of the big things about wondering and developing an engaged dialogue is this idea of mutual reciprocity, that I have as much to learn from you as you do from me.”
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Rhianna Rogers
“We humans are at our best when we bring something that is distinctive and uniquely ourselves to endeavours that deeply matter. We are contributing beings; when we can’t make things better, we lose spirit and will. This is a matter of human agency, which comes from an individual’s self-initiative and awakens the spirit and will in them.”
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Carol Sanford
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“I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.”
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Brené Brown, (Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations)
“What does responsibility mean? ...having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now. All problems contain the seeds of opportunity, & this awareness allows you to take the moment and transform it to a better situation"
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Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
Regenerative’ mindset is "... is one that sees the world as built around reciprocal and co-evolutionary relationships, where humans, other living beings and ecosystems rely on one another for health, and shape (and are shaped by) their connections with one another. It recognises that addressing the interconnected social and environmental challenges we face is dependent on rebalancing and restoring these relationships.
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Josie Warden is Head of Regenerative Design at the RSA (RSA Journal Issue 4 2021)
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Somewhere between action and reaction is an interaction, and that’s where all the magic and fun lies.”
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Tyson Yunkaporta
“All successful networking is dependent on two key things: reciprocity and curiosity."
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Phyllis Weiss Haserot, Author, you can't google it!
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"Biomimicry is about valuing nature for what we can learn, not what we can extract, harvest, or domesticate. In the process, we learn about ourselves, our purpose, and our connection to each other and our home on earth."
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Episode 11: Biomimicry (Biomimicry on Wild For Change Podcast, September 2021)
Insight into a few posts
Knowing your values (and therefore quite often your trigger points!) can be empowering in two different ways:
1) I understand WHY certain accusations cause emotional distress - with these values it can happen quite often!
2) I believe that our boundaries reflect our core values which is a sign of self awareness.
Permission to be curious!!
Rationality and intuition are increasingly both being seen as valuable thinking tools, rather than being mutually exclusive.
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During these VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) times, if businesses can integrate intuitive consultants to support strategic decision making they have a higher chance of achieving success.
In Business we sometimes need to stop the human urge to enforce conformity and rather hit pause, reevaluate where we are as individuals and as a team in relation to the bigger picture in order to find our feet again.
"Entire industries face severe disruptive changes on global markets, dramatic paradigm shifts in user behavior and socio-ecological transformations"
(https://cobiom.com/academy)