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Ep. 21 - Next Stage Radicals: Joeri Torfs #Beyond-institutions-creating-a-world-of-frictionless-person-to-person-engagement

This month’s guest radical is Joeri Torfs. Joeri's mission is to create frictionless person-to-person collaboration, unmediated by institutions and underpinned by a novel socio-economic model which enables people to adapt and self-manage in the face of life challenges. Together with his partner Pim Ampe, Joeri pursues this through his work as an enterprise architect and as Operational Director at the Quality of Life World Foundation. In this episode we discuss (i) the presence of 'force' in our lives and how this is impacting our ability to meet our needs (ii) ways in which the 'next stage' is already here but not yet integrated (iii) the role of individual agency in making change (iv) opting out of the status quo while still remaining part of the world.

Ep. 20 - Next Stage Radicals: Adrian Brown #Rethinking-government-for-a-VUCA-world

This month’s guest radical is Adrian Brown. Adrian is Executive Director of the Centre for Public Impact (CPI) and has over 15 years' experience working on government performance and transformation in the UK and internationally. He has held a range of positions in the UK government, including stints at the Prime Minister's Delivery Unit, the Strategy Unit and as a policy adviser in the Prime Minister's Office. In his work at the Centre for Public Impact he is helping others to reimagine government in ways that embrace complexity, value relationships and prioritise learning. In this podcast we discuss this work and what it means to rethink government for a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world.

Ep. 19 - Next Stage Radicals: Owen Lewis #Sport-Wales-Journey-Into-Complexity-Friendly-Partnerships-Funding-And-Accountability

This month's guest radical is Owen Lewis, Assistant Director of Sports Systems, Strategy and Services at Sport Wales. Owen has been at the centre of work to reshape the role Sport Wales plays to become better adapted to complexity. This has led to some radical and ambitious changes to how Sport Wales and its partners are thinking about their roles, the way that funding works and how accountability should be operationalised together. In this episode we explore (i) Why Sport Wales is doing this work (ii) How they and their partners are using data to improve, not prove (iii) How trust operationalises through learning and common purpose (iv) What it's like when the doubts creep in (v) And how doing this work has released creativity, energy and intrinsic motivation.

Easier Inc. News - July 2021

A special edition of our newsletter celebrating the launch of the Human Learning Systems eBook / report.

Ep. 18 - Next Stage Radicals: Toby Lowe #Human-Learning-Systems-A-New-Paradigm-For-Public-Service

This month's guest radical is Toby Lowe. Toby is Visiting Professor of Public Management at the Centre for Public Impact and the main face, voice and agitator for the Human Learning Systems movement. In this episode we explore (i) how HLS differs from New Public Management (the status quo approach characterised by Markets, Managers and Metrics) (ii) why anchoring to the real lives of people through a learning relationship is the essential foundation for public service (iii) whether HLS is scalable and (iv) where the HLS approach is being pioneered.