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When the going gets tough

We love to celebrate the business pioneers who are shaping a more humane future with their progressive operating practices. But our friends the Corporate Rebels are right to recognise the not-so-successful stories too, identifying the common reasons organisations can revert to business-as-usual... 

Kαλώς ήρθατε!

With xenophobia seemingly on the rise in our troubling political age, let's turn our attention to its opposite: the ancient Greek ideal of xenia: hospitality towards strangers...

One million employee-owners

The employee ownership revolution is now fully underway, with big UK names like Riverford and Richer Sounds recognising that businesses should be owned by the people who power them day-to-day. You too can add your voice to this campaign from Coops UK and The Employee Ownership Association asking the UK Government to set an ambitious goal...

Promoting procrastination

Procrastination lurks in the lives and the to-do lists of many of the best, hardest-working people we know. But instead of feeling guilty about putting off difficult tasks, let's seek to better understand the reasons and the mechanisms behind this ubiquitous behaviour...

When citizens decide

As we'll learn at Meaning in November, citizens' assemblies are becoming recognised as the democratic mechanisms that might just get us out of the mess(es) we are in. So how do they work? How does it feel to participate? Does anything get decided? Here are some lessons from London...

Empathic evolution

“Empathy is grounded in the acknowledgement of death, a celebration of life and rooting for each other to flourish.” In this brilliant RSA Animate video, Jeremy Rifkin illustrates how empathy is a phenomenon fundamental to human civilisation...

See-saws without frontiers

We're fans of bold artistic statements that make us think about our humanity. And who wouldn't be moved by this simple, powerful gesture that appeared on the US/Mexico border a few days ago. It speaks for itself, and for millions of us...

Systems, souls, and society

Where does real, meaningful, important change happen? Within our society or within ourselves? In this compelling podcast, philosopher Jonathan Rowson suggests that the better we get at switching between the inward and outward-looking perspectives, the more effective the change we can create...

Your role in creating Meaning Fringe

In mid-November Meaning Fringe extends the spirit and purpose of Meaning through a range of independently organised events and adventures that take place in the hours and days around the main conference. Now's your chance to propose a Fringe event that will become part of 2019's Meaning experience. The submission deadline is 23 August...