In the non profit world, we're making ideas to help society navigate what's coming. But it is kind of a zero some game, because the dollar pool in the n go world is a tiny, tiny fraction relative to the corporate world. I've done exercises where we take a great, big, fat old sailing sheet,. and we'll put groups in the room, depending upon how many people are there, and they have to make the most horrible knot they can. And that becomes the metaphor for what we're going to be dealing with in the workshop. Every workshop should begin with some approach and something that wakes people up that we're dealing with a system, a complex system.
On this episode we meet with Executive Director of Stanford University’s Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, Joan Diamond.
Diamond helps us imagine the future in an uncertain time. How can we create robust strategies to help us plan? How can we avoid thinking only of worst-case scenarios?
Further, Diamond offers suggestions for how people can handle their hopelessness and rage following recent Supreme Court rulings. What options exist for people to change systems?
About Joan Diamond
Joan Diamond has executive background in private and nonprofit sectors, including Fortune 500 energy enterprises such as executive VP of Hawaiian Electric Company, vice president and corporate secretary of a Silicon Valley telecommunications company, and COO of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. She is the Executive Director of Stanford University’s Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere (MAHB) and of the Crans Foresight Analysis Nexus (FAN).
For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/29-josh-farley