PET has been “in business” since 2009. It was originally setup with one distinct purpose, namely to serve as the charitable vehicle for the provision of the “Findhorn Eco-Kit Project,” first throughout Morayshire and later overseas too. This was PET’s first manifestation of it’s Memorandum of Association. It has been manifesting successfully ever since. Manifestation […]
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Manifesting
Hello valued reader! April sees PET’s new Financial Year beginning. “April Fools” rang in the month, and today is the International Day of Creativity & Innovation. Linking these diverse bits of info to PET’s vision, which is “to encourage social development, environmental protection and improvement, and wellbeing in the whole Findhorn Ecovillage Community,” begs the […]
Medicine in kind
PET is about protection AND improvement — environmentally, socially and re. well-being. The last two are being put to a heavy test in these days, interestingly to the advantage of the first… We’re all responding quite positively: the air’s full of official, sensible Do’s & Don’ts; organisations (including us) are doing their bit putting together […]
Barriers to change
Extrapolate the object of the below blog — organisational development — onto any sustainability project you like¹, and you will have 5 strategic areas to focus on. https://corporate-rebels.com/moss-kanter/ ¹ eg: developments in community culture, housing, carbon footprint, finances, and hey, why not even personal development!
New projects ideas and reducing risk
As an innovator & entrepreneur your #1 task is to reduce the risk and uncertainty of new business ideas before you invest big and scale … … test desirability, viability, and feasibility. That gives us three major areas of uncertainty: Do customers want it (desirability), can we build & implement it (feasibility), and can we […]
New projects & value creation
So simple and very interesting was a blog in the Harvard Business Review (Edmundson & Verdin 9Nov2017), that I add some bits of it here. I feel the information is very important for new and up&running projects and programs to take into consideration. We’re all creatures of habit. We all prefer to avoid pain of […]
Keeping up with the Joneses
When looking at any way forward, I have two choices: “More of the Same” — movement not progress restructuring, investment in HRactivities, focus on more productivity and less costs, or “Guts & Will & Faith” in the collective ability to transcend the mundane by harmonising the demands of common sense [to keep costs effective while […]