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Jun 18, 20231 min read

The Blueprint Canvas

The purpose of this research is to establish a baseline of the effect and affect of the Cultural and Creative Sectors on the economy...

Jun 17, 20231 min read

Putting Back the Human in Architecture: Matthias Hollwich

We kick off our new theme for our podcast series: Conceptualisation. And who better to launch this with than Matthias Hollwich , one of...

Jun 17, 20231 min read

Experimentation As a Guiding Design Principal:

Continuing our theme on “Experimentation”, we sat with Saleh Kayyali, an experience designer based in London. Saleh spent most of his...

Jun 17, 20231 min read

The Craft of Cultural Experimentation: Nada Debs

We kick off our theme on “Experimentation”, celebrating and encouraging one of the fundamental building blocks of creativity and culture,...

Jun 17, 20231 min read

Storytelling: Fertilizing the Human Imagination | Fiammetta Rocco

For our new MeenWho podcast episode, we delved into Literary Transformation with Fiammetta Rocco. Fiammetta is the Administrator of the...

Jun 17, 20231 min read

The Lyrics of Web 3.0 | Anthony Marshall

Hello everyone! Continuing on our theme of Transformation, in our second episode, we talk with Anthony Marshall, WEB 3.0 evangelist and...

Jun 17, 20232 min read

Musings On The Future Of Museums | Gail Lord

Hello and welcome everybody! This is Abdallah, co-founder of Silverline Community and your host to the MeenWho podcast, the show that...

Jun 15, 20232 min read

Themes of the Year

This year we thought we would begin a series of content and actions aimed at transformation. Now to be frankly honest, this was a rather...

Jun 15, 20235 min read

Cathedral Thinking for the XXI Century

What is Cathedral thinking? Cathedral thinking dates back to the medieval times when architects were tasked with building cathedrals none...

Jun 15, 20234 min read

A Year in The Rearview Mirror

This article was written on Thursday 31 December 2020 Impact noun/ˈɪmpakt/ The action of one object coming forcibly into contact with...

Jun 15, 20231 min read

Our Leaders Of Tomorrow Are Going To Need These 4 Rare Skills

Need To Be Systems Thinkers Tomorrow’s best leaders will understand that everything is connected—and their choices and priorities will...

Jun 15, 20232 min read

Intellectual Humility: the importance of knowing you might be wrong

A longer version of this article appears on [John Templeton Foundation] Psychologists and philosophers are working to tease apart the...

Jun 15, 20234 min read

Diving Deeper: On Critical Thinking

The intellectual roots of critical thinking are as ancient as its etymology, traceable, ultimately, to the teaching practice and vision...

Jun 15, 20233 min read

Coping in times of Extreme Collective Trauma

Published on 8th of August as a response to the 4th of August Beirut Explosion Newt Gingrich once said, “Perseverance is the hard work...

Jun 15, 20231 min read

A Worthy Conversation Series | A New "Gameeya" Concept with Ahmed Wadi

We all are kind of familiar with the "cooperative" community model, used by millions of people across continents, living in different...

Jun 15, 20232 min read

The 5 people you need to be happy

Happiness is about unleashing your god-given talents to positively influence this world. Human relationships have the deepest richest...

Jun 15, 20233 min read

One behaviour: Five choices

We do this all the time, making choices. We are making choices about the behaviors that we bring into the world. And the choices that we...

Jun 15, 20233 min read

6 crucial collaboration skills

Collaboration is all about bringing people together from different departments, locations, and teams, then focusing their efforts on a...

Jun 15, 20232 min read

Building the Ability to Innovate

A version of this content appears in the Harvard Business Review - Collective Genius Willingness is necessary but not sufficient for...

Jun 15, 20232 min read

The 7 Cooperative Principles

Whether you operate as worker-owned, consumer/purchase or hybrid cooperative, around the world, all cooperatives operate according to the...

Jun 15, 20234 min read

Whose project is it anyway?

Collaboration and cooperation are two words which are often used interchangeably, especially in the workplace. Both terms are so overused...

Jun 15, 20232 min read

The Success Failure Eco-cycle

There are two important relationships to consider between failure and success. Firstly, failure starts where success ends, and it defines...

Jun 15, 20231 min read

Diving Deeper: Passion, Success and Failure

In The Passion Economy, writer Adam Davidson delineates the ground rules of the new economy, and armed with these, we begin to see how we...

Jun 15, 20233 min read

Why Innovation Requires a Different Kind of Leadership

A version of this article appeared in the June 2014 issue of Harvard Business Review. The rhetoric of innovation is often about fun and...