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Welcome to 🌘 The Other Side of Impact, my newsletter on unconventional dimensions of leadership, impact and sustainability.
On The Ecology of Power
Can we master the Science of Provocation? ~ 🔥You can listen to the full piece here, or continue reading below.Reading time: 9 minutes.The Ecology of Power | The Other Side of Impact0:00/324.3733331× In March I wrote a private Letter to 100 of my most trusted contacts, allies
What does it take to be a bridgemaker? - part 2
A: "Most of my work is about building bridges." Me: "Ah! I'm actually writing about this. What do you think it takes to be a bridgemaker?" A: "I don't know, but I'm terrible at it." July 2023 – Puyanawa
What does it take to be a bridgemaker?
"Everything you have." 🔥You can listen to the full piece here, or continue reading below.Reading time: 9 minutes.Meg Pagani The Other Side of Impact What does it take to be a bridgemaker part 10:00/445.6106671×🤓Hint: if you're using a dark theme,
Business is hurting, and so are we.
🔥You can listen to the full piece here, or continue reading below. Reading time: 9 minutes.Meg Pagani | The Other Side of Impact - Business is hurting, and so are we0:00/7:531×🤓Hint: if you're using a dark theme, the play button is hard to see
Are we using Power, or is power using us?
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You think your impact and purpose matter? Think again. | TEDx Lisbon 2022
My most radically honest speech so far. Hope you enjoy it! Event: TEDx LisbonCatolicaSBE Date: April 2022
#013 - Our Center Of Honesty
L’onestà è una cosa semplice. Honesty doesn’t have to be dramatic, or aggressive. True honesty is simple. As I let the teachings of the Way of the Forest sink in and further stretch their roots across my work, this concept keeps coming up for me. ~ In nature, things
#012 - The Way of the Forest
“I did a little exploring with an image I love from one version of the Sotho story of Ditaolane, in which the fleeing hero turns himself to stone at the edge of a great river to escape an angry mob of people. Reaching the edge, too, one of the people
#011 - The True Anatomy of Purpose
PART 2: your compass bearing to a forgotten border ~ When the mind can’t help you navigate, what other parts of you seem to know the way? In the first piece of this series we saw that Purpose is not something we can power through with our mind, and that
#010 - The True Anatomy of Purpose
PART 1: your mind won’t serve the task. ~ One of the questions that seem to be shaking this time in history is: what’s real? What feels real? What is truly valuable? What would I stand up for and defend, if threatened? These are not easy questions to sit
#009 - Theories of Change
Yesterday was the last day of the TED Countdown event, a “conference and global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis”. TED is a big platform, probably one of the main ones when it comes to thought leadership and narratives of change, and there’s one particular
#007 - Your Offering, and Prime Material
Over the last essays we explored the symbol of Gates as moments of transmutation, we shed light on the price we’re asked to pay in order to cross the threshold and we understood that a non-negotiable requirement is to offer our identity. But what do we really mean when