[P2P-F] Fwd: Synchronous Failure: Small Acts of Hope

Fri Mar 18 12:23:49 CET 2011

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From: Michelle Smith <admin at triarchypress.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:21 PM
Subject: Synchronous Failure: Small Acts of Hope
To: michelsub2004 at gmail.com

         Dear Michel,

Last month, Graham Leicester at the International Futures Forum (IFF) sent
us a manuscript whose second chapter is called *Synchronous Failure* and
begins:

*We are increasingly confronted with major disasters and disruptions which
make demands on emergency services. The most familiar and headline grabbing
are the natural disasters such as earthquakes and superstorms. Whole swathes
of infrastructure can be destroyed in such incidents affecting millions of
people.*

*...If this situation were not challenging enough we seem to be entering a
period when both natural and man made disasters and dislocations are
increasing in frequency and intensity. This creates a new level of hazard
[when multiple natural and man-made problems occur all at the same time]
called synchronous failure. The implications of a world in which multiple
major disruptions are likely have yet to be properly addressed.*

Then came news of events in Japan and the need to find a middle way between
the catastropic response to this emergency (*The end is nigh*) and the
ostrich response (*The stock market will take a hit but we'll be fine*). For
inspiration, I turned to the IFF's *Ten Things to Do in a Conceptual
Emergency* <http://www.triarchypress.com/pages/book19.htm>*. *It says:

* <http://www.triarchypress.com/pages/book19.htm>**Not all responses to
challenging times are dysfunctional. It is
possible to face up to challenge and grow with and through it. Changed
circumstances can be seized as opportunities for creative engagement and,
rather than generating resistance, generate a step change in learning and
growth.*

** <http://www.triarchypress.com/pages/book19.htm>

*Ten Things to Do... *looks at the Conceptual Emergency which arises when
profound changes cut across our established ways of thinking. It
reformulates the challenges we face and suggests ten small but significant
acts of hope that we can undertake.

Beautifully illustrated and written, its 10 suggestions include practising
Social Acupuncture, which has just joined the growing list of terms in our
Idioticon<http://triarchypress.blogspot.com/2011/03/idioticon-social-acupuncture.html>.
Both the Idioticon and the online edition of *Ten Things to Do... *are
available free.

Go here to download a FREE digital copy of *Ten Things to Do in a Conceptual
Emergency* <http://triarchypress.co.uk/pages/ePub_registration.php> (or
visit the Triarchy Press
bookshop<http://triarchypress.co.uk/pages/book19.htm>if you would
rather buy a printed copy.)

 <http://www.asifonq.com/buy_OnQ.php>And for a way of ‘surfacing’ and
discussing different views and perspectives in your family, in a work group
or amongst friends, try our *On Q* cards. Use them as a creativity tool, a
meeting interlude, an intergenerational game, a discussion forum...

Top of the pack as I open it is: *“Tell us about the first significant
international event you can remember and what you made of it.”*

You can get the cards only for just £7.25 or a boxed game with instructions,
dice and answer sheets. To order either, go
<http://www.asifonq.com/buy_OnQ.php>here<http://triarchypress.com/pages/The_OnQ_Game.htm>
.

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independent publisher of books focusing on organisations, how they work and
the way we work in them.

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*The Crisis in Japan*

*+ Your Creativity*

Tudor Rickards - Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at
Manchester Business School - has worked in nuclear science (radiation
chemistry) as well as in various projects internationally which have
generated industrial innovations through applying creative problem-solving
techniques.

He e-mailed us this morning to ask us to propagate his excellent idea for
harnessing our collective creativity to help the crisis in Japan.

If you have ideas please go here
now.<http://leaderswedeserve.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/the-nuclear-crisis-in-japan-and-why-your-creativity-is-needed/>

*It Takes a Network*

Bill Bellows is organising the *In2In Network* Forum in LA next month. It's
*the* place to meet remarkable and knowledgeable systems thinkers from
around the world [incidentally, the IFF's Graham Leicester -- see left --
will be speaking.] Bill e-mailed us this morning to say:

 Greater agility in action *and* thinking is needed in industry, government
and education, be it in the *anticipation* of problems, the *response
rates*to crises, or when
*exploring opportunities* for investment.  It takes agile thinking to invest
in an early-warning system to detect earthquakes and tsunamis and be able to
respond quickly to the repercussions of both.

 As we've seen over the past week, *it takes a network* to coordinate
efforts in Japan to provide help to the thousands who have been displaced
and are now threatened with food shortages and health risks from radiation
exposure, let alone the daily challenge to stay warm and dry.

 If you're interested in exploring the limitless implications of
improving agility
in action and thinking in industry, government, and education, we invite you
to join us at the In2:InThinking Network 2011 Forum in Los Angeles,
California on April 28th through May 3rd.  This year, our ever timely focus
will be;

*"Exploring Opportunities: Imagine...Define....**Lead......"   *

For reservations or more information,visit
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 or e-mail the Forum Team at forums at in2in.org.

 The last day for the early registration discount is March 28th, for a
$50 savings on the $400 registration fee.

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