Laura Hilliger

2 months ago | juliangirdham.substack.com | Laura Hilliger |Julian Girdham |Josh Brake |L. M. Sacasas

Neil Postman died in 2003 at the age of 73. Probably his best-known book is Amusing Ourselves to Death. Recently I picked out my copy of Technopoly: the surrender of culture to technology, which was first published in 1992, and re-read it. Postman is being cited a lot these days, in the context of the development of AI and the dominance of our tech over-lords (see for example on Postman’s Prophetic Provocations).

Nov 19, 2024 | blog.weareopen.coop | Laura Hilliger

Some things we’ve talked about in our cooperativeI thought it might be a good idea to try to describe the Tao, or the natural way, of WAO. “In the Tao Te Ching, Laozi explains that the Tao is not a name for a thing, but the underlying natural order of the universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe because it is non-conceptual yet evident in one’s being of aliveness.” (Wikipedia)Doug and I, both founding members of WAO, have a podcast we called the Tao of WAO.

Jun 3, 2024 | blog.weareopen.coop | Laura Hilliger

After years of working with and for a variety of different kinds of social impact organisations - from educational institutions to cooperative federations, small community-based charities to global non-profits - we've been lucky to see how our strategy and "critical friend" services can help leaders set foundations for an organisational programme or initiative. It's only lately that we've thought about some of what we do through the lens of "Fractional Leadership".