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Part consultancy, part thinktank, part social enterprise, Halcyon helps you prepare for and respond to personal, organisational and societal change.

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To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction - Theodore Zeldin

2014

WHAT'S CHANGING TODAY?
Internal Change
Halcyon Identifies 23 January 2019

Please see below recent inner and outer change. Contact us for help in dealing with change.

What's Changing? - Democracy

Submitted by Halcyon Identifies on 14 January 2019
Democracy

 

Please see below selected recent democracy-related change.

 

See also: Halcyon Democracy Headlines

 

December 2018

  • According to the Democracy Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit, democracy did not go into decline in 2018 for the first time in three years. The index rates 167 countries by 60 indicators, including electoral processes and civil liberties. Just as populists with autocratic tendencies have won elections in recent years, so too has political participation shot up. But this year’s results may signal only a pause, not an end, to democracy’s retreat, warned The Economist.

 

November 2018

What's Changing? - Risk
Risk
Halcyon In Business 12 January 2019

 

Please see below selected recent risk-related change.

 

See also; Halcyon Risk Headlines

 

January 2019

  • 2019 could turn out to be the year the world falls apart, warned GZEROMedia. Tail risks created by bad actors inflicting damage that then create an escalatory cycle are higher than they've been at any point since 1998. But for now, all such risks remain low-likelihood events. More likely, and despite increasingly worrisome headlines, 2019 is poised to be a reasonably good year and not a particularly politically risky year. But GZEROMedia warned further that the world is setting itself up for trouble down the road. Big trouble. And that's in itself top risk.

 

November 2018

What's Changing? - Talent
Talent
Halcyon In Business 31 December 2018

 

Please see below selected recent intelligence about talent.

 

See also: Halcyon Talent Headlines

 

December 2018

On Leonard Cohen

Submitted by Halcyon In Kal… on 31 December 2018
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"So come, my friends, be not afraid.
We are so lightly here.
It is in love that we are made;
In love we disappear."

Happy posthumous birthday, Lenny.

You tried, in your way, to be free. Thank you. Now go join that great gig in the sky. So I wrote a year ago, when Lenny left us. However, the legend lives on - listen for example to How the Light Gets In.

'We Love Leonard Cohen' celebrated his 81st Birthday, and then, for his 82nd and final birthday, Leonard gave us a present. "You Want It Darker" is the title track to last album, his 14th studio album in his 49-year recording career. (See also Leonard Cohen Makes it Darker.)

"Leonard Cohen offers the possibility of living with grace, dignity, and integrity, without submitting to illusions, without succumbing to indifference, and without indulging in denial of our own failures and flaws, in a world that is too often corrupt and malevolent" - Allan Showalter

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