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The 52:52:52 project, launching both on this site and on social media in early 2024 will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

This site addresses what's changing, in our own lives, in our organisations, and in wider society. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 areas, ranging from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and very much else inbetween.

Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Intelligence

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before - Kurt Vonnegut http://j.mp/Y9rCDo

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex - Aldous Huxley

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein, (1879-1955)

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It often seems that organisations are less intelligent than the humans within them. They make costly mistakes and few survive beyond half a human lifetime. Yet, more heads are better than one". So what goes wrong? One problem is that of 'group think' where a certain herd instinct takes over from individual common sense - from The Unintelligent Enterprise, 1993

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It is not individuals (or the masses) who change the world, but twosomes. It is couples who create the next generation. It is in private meetings between two individuals that we learn how to exchange encouragement and to feel what another person feels. Big changes are superficial unless they are the sum of a lot of little changes in the way we understand and treat one another. Our life stories are dominated by the encounters we have had with particular individuals, and by our constant search for new encounters. The underprivileged are those who meet only other underprivileged people and can create no spark between them. They need intermediaries to bring about other sorts of encounter http://www.oxfordmuse.com/museideas/futurework.htm

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Intelligent people, when assembled into an organisation, will tend toward collective stupidity - Karl Albrecht

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Intelligent people, when assembled into an organisation, will tend toward collective stupidity - (thus states Albrecht's Law, proposed by management consultant Karl Albrecht

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An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex - Aldous Huxley