Monthly Archives: April 2011

More on the Civil Society Forum (CSF) launch from Founders and Supporters… – Aidan Ward, CSF Co-Founder: I felt that there was serious commitment in the room, a valid response to John Carlisle’s description of the current challenge as a “perfect… Continue reading →

Yesterday’s launch of the Civil Society Forum surpassed expectations. It is already being positively reported on thirdsector.co.uk From a standing start five weeks ago, we bravely – if not madly- committed ourselves to a launch on Wednesday 20th A… Continue reading →

Collaborative Strategies Networks members Alan Murray, Kathryn Haynes and Lucian Hudson have won a prestigious award. Their peer-reviewed paper “Collaborating to achieve corporate social responsibility and sustainability?: Possibilities and proble… Continue reading →

A good friend and colleague, John McDonald, knows Martin, who last year lost his mother through cancer. Trish had been diagnosed with skin cancer out of the blue. She died only 5 weeks later. This sponsorship message has gone out: Trish was a beau… Continue reading →

Congratulations to Nic Fleming and the New Scientist on this week’s article (page 42, 9th April 2011). It challenges the almost unquestioned dogma – swallowed by most economists, human resource professionals, headhunters and consultants – that peo… Continue reading →

1. Letter in today’s Times: www.restorativejustice.org.uk/news/30_prominent_people_across_society_sign_le… and www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12967790 2. Session on Justice sponsored by Liberal Judaism at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival (I am s… Continue reading →

Interesting reading this weekend: 1. Richard Goldstone in The Washington Post: “We know a lot more today about what happened in the Gaza war of 2008-09 than we did when I chaired the fact-finding mission appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council … Continue reading →

My work on collaboration has in part been inspired by how society faces a conceptual and practical test in tackling “wicked problems” (see Chapter 5 of my report, “The Enabling State: Collaborating for Success” http://www.cstoneglobal.com/enabling… Continue reading →