What is The Edge of Possible? How to Make Better Decisions and Create A Future of Opportunity.

What is the Edge of Possible? How can it help you and your organisation make better decisions, be more resilient and grasp future opportunity?

Social Impact Leadership Guide For Better Strategy, Skills & Decision Making

Discover helpful and useful practical advice and guidance on tools techniques, knowledge and skills for social impact leadership & decision making

Social & Community Project Funding Proposals and Grants: Your Complete Guide

Want to get funding for your community project? In this full guide to a successful project funding proposal or grant we’ll tell you all you need to know

Your Complete Guide to Starting and Managing Social Projects in Your Community

A comprehensive guide to social projects. Answering your questions and helping you understand how to create and manage social projects in your community.

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Understanding the New Neighbourhood Health Service & The Big Community Implementation Challenge.

The Neighbourhood Health Service is designed to transform community healthcare. But how can the NHS overcome the challenges to implement it?

Why Do Governments, Organisations, and Even Healthcare Value People and Communities as Worthless?

Every day people are laid off communities are not valued why? Why do our organisations see people only as costs?
It’s time we stop disinvesting in what matters most and start valuing humanity and creating positive social impact.

Why Wes Streeting’s 6 billion NHS Cost-Cutting Approach Is A Terrible Leadership Role Model.

Why the leadership role model set by Wes Streeting is a terrible example to set for the NHS and risks many poor decisions.

How The NHS Can Transform Our Society By Tackling ‘Our Too Sick To Work’ Unemployment Crisis.

The UK is facing a welfare crisis as ever more people claim benefits as they are too sick to work. The NHS has a central role to play in unleashing their potential and building a new future for our society.

The Spiral of Control and Power: Why Healthcare Managers Psychology So Often Focuses on Orders, Actions and Micromanagement.

The Psychology why managers so often get over focused on the spiral of control and power, orders plans and micromanaging and how to escape it.

Why Cutting Bureaucrats Won’t Fix Bureaucracy, And What Will

Learn why cutting bureaucrats the wrong way to fix the problems of bureaucracy and how we can really tackle this problem in our organisations

NHS England’s Darwinian Trap: Why Evolution Doomed It to Fail & What Lessons Can We Learn

NHS England didn’t change the system, the system changed NHS England. Discover why falling into a Darwinian Trap led to its failure, and how your organisation can evolve differently.

Is Measurement Destroying What Matters in Healthcare?

Focusing only on measurement, healthcare risks losing what matters most and understanding the real human and the real problem.

The Powerful NHS Budgeting Lie: Why It’s Stifling Change and How We Can Fix It

“You can’t do that, it’s not in the budget!” How this powerful lie prevents change and innovation in healthcare and what we can do about it.

The Change Radar: Rethinking Healthcare KPIs: Measuring What Truly Matters for Health & Wellbeing

Relying on narrow KPIs can mask deeper causes and shift problems instead of solving them. The Change Radar captures a fuller picture, health, social, and environmental factors, enabling earlier, more effective interventions.

Why Problem Solving and Brainstorming in Groups Often Fails: Moving Beyond the Minimum Acceptable Solution

Learn why groups often fail to produce innovative solutions when they brainstorm and solve problems resulting in the minimum acceptable solution

Why Starting with “Defining the Problem” in Public Services is a Mistake

Defining the problem in public sector projects & initiatives is often the first step to failure. We need to refocus on the system that creates those needs

Why We Need To Avoid AIsolation: The AI Negative Social Impact Trap.

AIsolation is the negative social impact that occurs when people have been disengaged by AI from each other and the world in which they live.

What does good AI look like? Why We Need A Harmonious Vision of AI for the Future.

What does good AI look like? The concept of harmony can help us find our way to better AI and create a for a better future and positive social impact

Why AI Needs To Be a Priority To Help Us Fix Healthcare & The NHS

Why should AI be a priority for the NHS? Our healthcare system is broken and in crises, surely Healthcare AI is just a distraction from fixing the problem? Or is AI our best bet in turning our crises around? Our NHS is Currently In Crisis.Is Healthcare AI Just A...

How Do We Stop The Latest NHS Reform Plan from Failing?

How do we stop yet another NHS plan from failing? The plan is not the solution. What matters most is HOW it is delivered.

Are The NHS Reforms Radical Enough?

Will the new radical reforms of the NHS announced this week be enough to fix the waiting list crises?

Why the England’s Devolution Plan is The New Feudalism.

Review of England’s devolution plan: This version of devolution is the reinvention of a feudal system with the bureaucrats in charge

Why More Data Isn’t Fixing Healthcare: The Case for Embracing Diverse Realities

Are we drowning in data but missing the point? Despite collecting ever more healthcare data, we are missing people’s diverse experience of reality.

Why Love Should Replace Stress & Fear At The Heart of Healthcare

Love is an essential part of healthcare. The National Health Service needs be managed with love and compassion to build trust in the services it provides. As any organisation providing a service needs to do it from a place of love. Yet, despite its mission to improve...

It’s Not ‘The NHS’, It’s ‘OUR NHS’: Better Healthcare Through Reconnection To Society

It is not ‘The NHS’, it is ‘Our NHS’. The relationship between the NHS and the society it serves is one of deep interdependence. When people talk about the NHS as a separate thing they are ignoring its and our health is dependent on each other. The phrase "our NHS"...

Can the NHS Be Fixed With a New Plan?  How To Avoid Repeating The Mistakes Of The Past.

The NHS is broken according to the UK Prime Minister. The NHS is at a crossroads once again, with fresh discussions of reform and yet another plan being proposed aimed at ‘fixing’ what’s deemed a broken system. But will a plan work? Can we learn from how other plans...

Why the NHS is Broken & How We Can Fix It

The National Health Service (NHS), has famously been labelled as ‘broken; by the new Minister for Health. This sentiment reflects widespread concern about the effectiveness of the system, but what is the real reason behind its struggles, and how can we fix it? The...

What is Organisational Diversity: Understanding Diversity is Not A Tick Box.

For many organisations, diversity has become a buzzword. The reality of organisational diversity is that it is often reduced to a box ticking exercise. While businesses and media are eager to showcase diverse representation, diversity is often mistaken as simply...

How to Make Your Organisation More Diverse Through Recruitment

It’s one thing to want to make your organisation diverse it’s another thing to do it. Our recruitment process discriminates at every stage against diversity. Whilst we talk about making our organisations more diverse, our main tool for change prevents diversity by...

What is The Edge of Possible? How to Make Better Decisions and Create A Future of Opportunity.

What is the Edge of Possible? How can it help you and your organisation make better decisions, be more resilient and grasp future opportunity?

Why Fear is the Silent Killer of Team Performance

Why fear is the silent killer of team performance? Why is it that teams of excellent people can massively underperform?

Beyond the Comfort Zone: The Role of Niches in Personal and Social Transformation

Why Our Comfort Zone is our ecological niche and what this can teach us about change and transformation.

Harnessing the Passion of Team Sports: Motivational Lessons for Leaders of Change

People are so passionate about team sports. Can leaders harness a similar passion and motivation in their organisation?

Why Organisational Change Needs to be Created Horizontally and Not Just Vertically.

Organisational change is normally done from the top down vertically. Adding horizontal change can empower and engage

Why the NHS is Broken & How We Can Fix It

Why the NHS is Broken & How We Can Fix It

The National Health Service (NHS), has famously been labelled as ‘broken; by the new Minister for Health. This sentiment reflects widespread concern about the effectiveness of the system, but what is the real reason behind its struggles, and how can we fix it? The...

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Why Santa is Real. Leading The Magic of Social Impact.

Why Santa is Real. Leading The Magic of Social Impact.

Santa Claus, while a mysterious figure, can be considered real due to the social impact he has every Christmas. The article argues that Santa exists as a collective force of shared cognition in society, embodying the spirit of joy and generosity that we bring to life through our actions. Embracing our inner Santa means impacting the world positively, one act of kindness and one gift at a time.

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How to Create Social Projects Using the Social Project Compass.

How to Create Social Projects Using the Social Project Compass.

The Social Project Compass is a tool specifically designed to help you create social projects. Social change can often be an unpredictable journey. This tool gives your project the flexibility and resilience of navigating social change. The compass is designed to help you adapt your project, responding to maintain momentum and maximise social impact.

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