WHAT “Circular Economy (CE) is widely recognized as the new economic model aiming to maintain the value of materials, parts, and products as long as possible, minimize the extraction and use of virgin resources and waste generation using design strategies that slow the flow of resources, close loops between production and post-use, and increase resource efficiency.” WHY It can be used to Operationalize or Build out one or more of the Four Dimensions of a Social Enterprise CE

McKinsey Doesn’t Use 20-Slide Decks. They Use One Page. Here’s Exactly How It’s Structured. Note to Reader: This article’s recommendations can assist any organization to improve communications on important issues. N.B. Lightly edited to fit. “A briefing slide is a single-page executive document that replaces a multi-slide deck in situations where decision-makers need the full picture fast. The McKinsey format structures it across four to eight clearly labelled sections — cont

October 9, 2025, Keith Boyd Note to Readers: The five step approach to integrating AI into your operations, outlined below, is clear, concise, and guides implementation. Lightly edited for length …..For leaders seeking to turn the promise of AI into action, the journey begins with clarity of purpose and a framework for progress. At Microsoft Digital, the company’s IT organization, we’ve been on the front lines of this AI-powered revolution, translating vision into reality and

Note to Reader: Fuck Up nights assists a diverse set of customers to learn from both their failure and the failures of others. FuckUp Nights THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY TO BREAK THE TABOO OF FAILURE We help use failure as a tool for growth in both individuals and organizations. We do this by creating impactful and fun events, workshops and content around the world. https://en.fuckupnights.com/ What do high-performing teams do to innovate? (Five best practices) Some of our clients, l

By: Joseph Wernau Note to Readers: In order to solve social problems social entrepreneurs use storytelling to facilitate their system change efforts. N.B. Module 10 of the Practitioner Guide in this Blog has additional resource material on story telling. (Edited lightly for length) Storytelling for Systems Change Story is not decoration. In systems change work, narrative is infrastructure. It shapes which problems get named, who gets blamed, and what solutions feel possible.

Robert Thompson Note to Readers: The pre-mortem tool is, in my opinion, easy to understand, use and effective in identifying potential errors in a project before implementation. NB: Article edited for length. “I remember the exact moment I became a coward. Not a dramatic, movie-villain cowardice. The smaller, more professional kind — the kind that wears a lanyard and sits quietly in a boardroom chair. It was a Tuesday. Third-floor. The glass-walled kind of conference room th

Note to Readers: Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a brilliant protestant theologian executed by the Nazi’s in 1945. Anticipating his death, he wrote a letter, to fellow anti-Hitler conspirators, entitled Theory of Stupidity. I think it provides a helpful way to understand the opposition to social change by stakeholders supporting a social problem embedded in the status quo. Such opposition is often rooted in groupthink which is also a challenge facing all organizations, including soc