So that’s how to dream. As a human being you knew all along, but perhaps living in the 21st century you needed a little reminder, a nudge from your own unconscious awareness. Here are some fragments from ‘How To Dream’ to weave into your own individual myths.1. Your dreams will find your dreams. 2. You create the dream that dreams you. 3. What happens inside, happens outside. 4. If you have a why, you will always find a how. 5. You are dreaming right now. 6. A symbol without a space is like a bull without a china shop. 7. If you want to know who you are, look at what you are doing. 8. All need is … [Read more...]

We all dream. Every single one of us. Everyone dreams but our modern world often distracts us from the beauty of our dreams and drowns out their powerful songs. Dreaming may have evolved as a way for complex neural networks to process information and pattern match more effectively. It may have developed as a way of synthesising new stimuli with past experience. It may be how a curious and opportunistic universe becomes self aware in all its glory. … [Read more...]

For many of us, the future seems a far away place that will somehow arrive someday. We often equate the future with individual and collective freedom, saying things to ourselves such as ‘Only five more years until retirement and then I’ll be free’, ‘When this technology is invented, then I’ll be free’, ‘When we own those resources then we’ll be free’, ‘When we are in power then we’ll be free’.  Most organisations are far more focused on the freedoms of their future share price rather than the reality of the shared value that they can create in the present. Most business analysts attempt … [Read more...]

But how can we honour our mysteries and still build our organisations? We often think of our businesses as existing entirely in the conscious domain with no room for the apparent vagueness of dreaming. Everything in a business should be rationalised, measured, monitored and managed. The more everything runs like clockwork, the better. Although this may be useful for some industrial processes, it is often of little use in working with human nature. Organisations often seek to control human behaviour by imposing some form of culture. This imposed culture is declared on mouse mats, screensavers, exhibition banners and … [Read more...]