Eiffel Over

Tag: emergency

  • Human beings or human doings

    It is easy to look back on the year and list what you have done – projects started and milestones met, things ticked off.

    It is much harder to look back and reflect on how you have been.  Asking questions like how you have felt along the way or how you have inhabited the year are much more groined and embodied questions than what you have done.

    But these latter questions remind us that we are human beings rather than human doings.

    This year, I’m going to try weaving this question into more of my end-of-year conversations and self-reflection. Not just what did I do?, but how was I?

  • Culture of climate emergency

    Culture of climate emergency

    If you are interested in understanding how your organisation should perform in the climate emergency then you should be interested in organisational culture. An emergency is a state in which we require people to behave differently to normal and take urgent action.

    We can understand organisational culture as the way a group of people get things done. If we want people to behave differently in the climate emergency then we need to change our organisational culture to one that is more appropriate to the urgency of the situation.

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  • A click of the ratchet from physical to virtual

    A click of the ratchet from physical to virtual

    Across all the of the projects I’m involved with we are working out what can go ahead and what must be postponed. A significant factor in whether to proceed is whether the activity can go ahead virtually. While the ability to move online is a blessing for business and job continuity, I think it represents an irriversible step for industry and society away from the phyical to the virtual – a click of the ratchet – that will have long-lasting impacts on our freedom and how we interact with other people.

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