Purpose Inspired Newsletter #18
Prof. Wayne Visser
World Top 10 Pracademic on Regenerative Business, Innovation & Technology | Professor at Catolica Porto Business School | Fellow at Cambridge University | Author of 40+ Books | Inspirational Speaker | On BlueSky not X
PICTURE OF THE WEEK - #SWIRLING
POST OF THE WEEK - #RHYTHM
We are all looking in vain for work-life balance. Instead we should be looking for work-life rhythm. Balance assumes work and life are separate and can be weighed on imaginary scales. But work is part of life – and life is dynamic and organic, not stable and mechanical. Nature works in rhythms and so do we as humans. Rhythm is sometimes fast, sometimes slow. It’s tuned into the beat of the moment. Rhythm is flexible. That means it’s ok for life (including work) to be frenetic and tiring sometimes, but at other times it needs to be mellow and rejuvenating.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK - #RESILIENCE
By pursing resilience strategies, we will be much better placed to endure the creative destruction to come
Quotation from "Disrupting the Future" (book) | See all books
PODCAST OF THE WEEK - #NATURE
In our modern economies and businesses, unlimited growth is constantly striven for, institutionalised, almost idolised.?We hold it up as the measure of success.?Yet, by doing this, we could be sowing the seeds of our own destruction.?We know this because in nature, unlimited physical growth is almost nowhere to be seen. When it does occur, we call it cancer, or imminent species collapse, or ecosystem decline.?In this episode, we look at lessons we can learn for the economy and business from: growth in nature; productivity in nature; and design in nature.
POEM OF THE WEEK - THE THINGS WE'VE BEEN THROUGH
Looking back, I’m amazed / At the things we’ve been through / At each step, how we’ve blazed / A new trail made for two
How we’ve travelled up mountains / To temples and streams / Across beaches, to fountains / Through forests of dreams
All the things we’ve been through / In all kinds of foul weather / When the pandemic grew: / Isolation together!
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How we’ve worked on the move / Found a beautiful home / How we’ve danced to the groove / Of the places we roam
When we fell or we flew / Nearly drowning at sea / All the things we’ve been through / Showed us what we can be
As we’ve wended our ways / How our love has stayed true / Looking back through the maze / At the things we’ve been through.
BOOK OF THE WEEK - SEIZE THE DAY
This creative collection brings together favourite inspirational poems by Wayne Visser. The anthology takes us on a journey through the peaks and troughs of life, celebrating the indomitable human spirit.. It includes many old favourites like "Poets Must Be" and "Chasing the Blue", as well as brand new poems like "The Writer" and "Making Ripples".
THOUGHT OF THE WEEK - #RITUALS
Rituals are labyrinths with meaning at their centre
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3 年Enjoying your newsletters Wayne Visser, I really like the concept of work-life rhythm and your caution about unlimited growth and relating it to nature - and though not mentioned specifically, Complex Adaptive Systems.
Thank you for the work-life balance post. I have often wondered who coined this word since it does indeed insinuate that all the time that we work we don't live.