July 2012 Blog Posts (11)

Human Potential - 97% dormant?

Of the 3 billion codings of human DNA, only 3% is utilised in humanity’s existence today. So what is humanity’s potential? What might be unrealised within us?



Evidence of this hidden potential is emerging from studies of isolated breeding – those places where religious, cultural, geographical, caste and temporal restrictions have inhibited the averaging out of potential and the…

The other week, I was at a meeting of a century old institution. The incoming President presented the results of a review that he’d been engaged in, that had impacts on the organisational structure, especially that affecting a number of volunteers. The existing structure has been in place for some time, and the people involved have their own interpretations of what its significance is – depending on how they came to be there. Some of these people were elected into position and, regardless of…

The RSA catalyst funded website www.ratemy-care.com is now live. If you have a relative in a care home or who is receiving care at home please write a review about their care to help people looking for care services to make decisions based on actual service users' experiences and to give older people a voice. There is also useful information about what to look for in choosing a care service and financial planning, all for free.

An article by  none other than the famed McKinsey states among other findings that  a great many companies are generating strategies that, by their own admission, are substandard. This is an interesting point and we could easily draw many correlations with recent events amply covered by the media.



PR and Marketing consultants have always advocated that…

The RSA Education Team is currently researching plans to offer a professional development programme with the aim of training a new generation of curriculum designers, developers and managers, ready to make the most of the emerging opportunities for schools to design their own curriculum.

The proposed programme will blend the learning and principles from two existing and successful RSA programmes - RSA Opening Minds and the Area Based Curriculum - as well as from curriculum design…

In the fifth and final part of our 'Sustainable Business: As If people Matter' series, Michael Townsend looks at the skills challenge - and how we might close the gap as we move towards a sustainable and low-carbon economy.

Given what we already know about climate change, diminishing…

Hello I'm Kathy Seddon. I would also like to add a post here as an 'at large' candidate in the forthcoming elections.

My candidate statement (below) outlines my…

...on the most difficult kind of social enterprise

Geof Cox's latest Guardian article on social enterprise

I thought I'd put my candidate statement on this Ning. I've been involved in creating and driving Incredible Edible Todmorden.  It's been a great journey and it's a privilege to have made a difference locally. Taking that knowledge and know-how, I'm keen to widen my reach and empower other fellows to make a social impact.

[Please note: John is currently on holiday with limited access to the internet - he's asked me to post his candidate's statement here on his behalf, in case Fellows have missed it on the main RSA website and as a way of introducing John to the discussions taking place here on the RSA Fellowship Social Network]

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I am Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of East Anglia.  Following experience as a teacher I developed an academic career as an applied educational and…