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Corporate Unplugged

The Importance of Understanding Context

Dec 26, 2023
38:22

There is a real pressure to solve the climate crisis and the myriad other environmental and social issues by breaking them down into their constituent parts, to solve them individually. But, says Nora Bateson, award-winning filmmaker, writer and educator, and President of the International Bateson Institute, this approach is the biggest challenge we need to overcome. 


We live in a complex, interdependent world, and to find new solutions we need to relearn how we think, feel and navigate, we need to adopt a different mindset. 


In this episode of Corporate Unplugged, Vesna and Nora discuss the need for a more diverse ecology of knowing; how do we know things? What is our ability to zoom in and study the details? And how can we zoom out and see the context?


To find out more, download and listen to this latest episode. 


On today’s podcast:


  • The perception habits we need to ditch
  • We have to learn to do things together
  • What is this warm data stuff?
  • The future Nora wants to see


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