BGI Faculty Simon Goland Featured in “Whole Systems Thinking” Interview
Leadership and Personal Development faculty Simon Goland recently visited the School of Inspired Leadership (SOIL) in India to teach a “Whole Systems Thinking” course. Below is a video interview...
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Impact Investing: Five structures to drive behavior
Meg O'Leary, Sustainable MBA at BGI “In their 2010 report, JP Morgan and the Rockefeller Foundation estimated that assets under management through impact investment strategies were $50 billion with...
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Systems Thinking, Meet Design Thinking: A Perfect Match
It’s about the journey, not the destination. This mantra sums up the overarching takeaway from summer’s Creativity & Right Livelihood class, generously applying to both topics. The power of...
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40 years ago I made the decision to stop eating meat and poultry. I have continued to eat fish, although I avoid farm-raised fish and wonder how long I can continue to rationalize this given the...
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Thinking in Systems: A Holistic Approach to Business
At BGI and Organization Systems Renewal (OSR), looking at the whole picture and taking a bird’s eye perspective is a way of being. To create truly sustainable solutions, an analysis of all the...
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Can Business Really Change All For Good?
I hesitated all weekend in writing this post, feeling that the words I would put onto paper would never fully articulate the thoughts in my head. This past week, my world was shaken, and the best laid...
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#slowmoney
Slow Money, a national movement to transform the landscape of funding our food system, convened their fourth National Gathering earlier this week. In pursuit of goals such as to “accelerate the...
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Plastic: A Problem and a Solution
In the beginning of the BGI class, Values and Value Creation, we briefly discussed the viability of John Bordynuik’s JBI Inc., questioning the company’s effectiveness as a solution to the overall...
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Systems Thinking in Norway
“How might we as a community respond differently to dementia?” wondered the municipality of Baerum-Kommune in Norway. As more and more members of their community are affected with this disease, taking...
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Why earn a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership?
Why earn a master’s degree in Organizational Leadership? For me, the decision came from my first leadership experience. A group of friends and I started a democratic school in 2009, and as we created...
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