Climate action: Left, Right, Left, Right….
Ironically, while the climate movement is still too white, it is also way too liberal. When the future of civilization is at …
Contextual Intelligence as a path to greater wisdom
Contextual intelligence is about expanding our understanding of – and capacity to address – the contexts shaping the situations we face. It’s …
Sixteen Approaches to the Strategic Use of Conversation
It turns out there are many different ways to look at increasing our strategic leverage with conversational initiatives. In January a number …
Using conversations strategically for transformation
The social and global challenges we face arise from the ways our cultures and systems make us think (and behave) as if …
My broadest exploration of polarization
A very broad exploration of polarization I wrote last year has been published by Integral Leadership Review. Given its length, I provide …
Can research further political polarization?
New research into body odor recognition adds to research on psychological and brain characteristics distinguishing liberals from conservatives. Despite the socially constructed …
Factors that support collective intelligence and wisdom
Many factors play a role in how collectively intelligent or wise a group, system, or situation is. Here I offer tentative lists …
A call for wiser research on collective wisdom
Research has just shown that “The Wisdom of Crowds” phenomena can be biased – a bias that can be avoided by focusing …
Exploring the Dynamics of Polarization
Polarization is collectively and individually toxic to our capacity to “do democracy” sanely and wisely. This post details the toxic dynamics of …
Evolving Empathy, personal and systemic
Empathy starts out as a personal feeling of resonance with another’s pain or joy. It moves on to become the practice of …