Mike Chitty

@mikechitty.bsky.social

Leadership, management and enchantment. https://open.substack.com/pub/freshthinking what if beneath all the noise there’s still a song playing ancient, unbroken, waiting? https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/an-introduction-to-relational-disobedience-4693683

The task before us is not to build a better machine, or even a better system, but to learn once again how to participate, with humility and care, in the living, more-than-human commons of which we have always been a part...

Here is the Tom Tom Club in London, 1982. We were about to play Wembley Arena with Talking Heads. From left, Steve Scales, Laura Weymouth, Alex Weir, Lani Weymouth, Tyrone Downie, Chris Frantz. Front, Tina Weymouth.

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The trickster has returned wearing Silicon Valley clothing. The dragon has returned and he is named Donald The grail is growth, productivity, wealth or escape The wizard is AI, influencers, science and consultants Fairyland has been reduced to the theme park Seeing the myths we live by…

Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness

Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas

PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’

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Half of the country is in "exceptionally serious drought" - putting us at more risk of wildfires and threatening our food security. Meanwhile water companies are wasting a staggering 2.87 billion litres of water every day through leaky pipes. Time to end water privatisation.

Half of England officially in "exceptionally serious" drought

Do you try to predict the skills required in the future and seek to develop them strategically? Or do you educate young children to be able to meet whatever future they may meet? We have been doing the former for decades and it always leads to massive ‘skills gaps’…