Surfing like other complex tasks requires going with the flow and adapting to new situations as they emerge. Letting go and allowing some chaos into your life is essential for growth. In my book co-written with Rick Smyre Preparing For A World That Doesn’t...
Elegance in complexity is a concept that emphasizes the need to look for “access points” in order to help seed and evolve new capacities for a changing and dynamic society. If we are to become prepared for an increasingly complex and interdependent society; we need to...
by Neil Richardson & Rick Smyre Note: After several months walking around with ideas germinating from the Kauffman Foundation’s ESHIP Summit, we are more convinced than ever that cities and leaders seeking to make catalytic change need to embrace...
There was a fire burning. Five of us were in the woods hundreds of miles from our home. I was with a high school friend and the rest were strangers hunkered down in a camping hut on the Appalachian Trail expecting intense rain. Staring into the fire, in a state of...
In this interview, Rodrick Chambers facilitates a dialog for his Old Soulz series. Renown futurist and thinker, Duane Elgin, joins Neil and four other integral thinkers exploring the BIG questions including: Where do we come from? What’s our purpose? Where are...
