Richard Hodge

13 November 2020

36. From Little Things Big Things Grow

Richard Hodge

13 November 2020

You hear ‘agile’. What do you think? New processes? Kanban, scrums, stand-up meetings? A big bank? Jargon?

I hear agile, I imagine a gymnast, a goalkeeper, or a boxer. A person, at once fluid in movement, ready in position, nimble afoot with reach, power and impact.

Richard Hodge

6 November 2020

35. Life Centred Design

Richard Hodge

6 November 2020

Politics is a game of numbers. A game of power over people. Win enough numbers, you call the shots. A distinctly human game, where 8 men now hold more economic power than half the world [1].

Richard Hodge

29 October 2020

34. Generate Trust

Richard Hodge

29 October 2020

I muse on experiences in another culture.

How I extend the hand of friendship in a traditional western style. He takes it. Another hand gentle on my shoulder, and his nose meets mine. Eyes stare into the black orbits of my soul. Mine, now stirred, meet his stare.

Richard Hodge

19 October 2020

33. Witness Progress

Richard Hodge

19 October 2020

Every Sunday night, we share family dinner with 11 people in four locations. It’s a connection of our souls.

Fun. Frivolity. Fanciful imaginations.

Richard Hodge

12 October 2020

32. Limits To Growth

Richard Hodge

12 October 2020

1974. Age 19. Driving dad’s new car: a Holden Monaro. Red. And, right for the times.

Clear of the city, cresting a hill, a long sweep of road in front of me.

Pedal down. Speed climbing. Fast. Very fast. 100 miles an hour fast.

Richard Hodge

2 October 2020

31. Imagine It Different

Richard Hodge

2 October 2020

Imagine today is the past and an ecological future is our children’s reality.

Imagine them living and caring for the planet as much as we have lived and cared for our economy.

Richard Hodge

29 September 2020

30. Always Pay It Forward

Richard Hodge

29 September 2020

Imagine giving the gift of life on Earth.

Imagine, then, taking life from Earth.

Since 1970, human activities have reduced wildlife populations by 60% and reduced habitat impacting 85% of all species [1].

Richard Hodge

25 September 2020

29. Pay It Forward

Richard Hodge

25 September 2020

When a major life event strikes, as it did with the death of my father two weeks ago today, there’s much to be done in response. Working through emotions to create an event where we said our farewells. Now, all done, respect remains.

Now, we have time to sit and *be*.

Richard Hodge

25 September 2020

28. Find Value Within

Richard Hodge

25 September 2020

Today, a mantle was passed to me. An extraordinary point in life when a mentor passes an office to a student.

That ‘office’ as the senior surviving male of the Hodge family is now mine.

Richard Hodge

8 September 2020

27. Value Governing Values

Richard Hodge

8 September 2020

What if we dig into the behavioural heart of people working together artfully to make things happen? We’d get to the issue of governing values in a heartbeat. We’d see how to value governing values.

In our next webcast, we consider the questions:

Richard Hodge

4 September 2020

26. Harvest Wisdom

Richard Hodge

4 September 2020

It’s been a week of mixed emotions.

Light and hope, as Victoria’s case numbers drop to double digits.

Admiration, for health care workers who make up a third of those.

Wonder, at where we’d be without their valor.

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

25. Indivisible Relationships

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

The issues of aged care, health, quarantine, population control and economics in Australia today are systemic issues.

The issues of governance, strategy, policy, execution, Human Resources and finance are systemic issues.

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

24. This Century Thinking Webcast - Value The Mess

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

Any idea of finding solutions for systemic issues is misleading. Systemic issues lose traceability between causes and effects – so, approaching them with a solution mindset is itself a problem.

What’s needed is an intervention mindset and approach. Dame Maggie Smith once put it, “there’s no beginning and no end, only points where you enter and leave the story.” [1]

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

23. Rethink Responsibility and Value

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

We’re high on accountability. Deeply rooted in expectation management. So deeply rooted, it can easily default to knowing who’s to blame when expectations aren’t met.

But imagine we were ‘mates’ in a non-racial, non-gender specific and trusted companion kind of way.

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

22. Safety Culture

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

Intensive care specialist, Peter Roberts, told me “bad health policy is more dangerous to my patients than the flesh-eating bug.”

That notion struck accord for every organisation I’ve worked with.

Peter realised his qualifications were not enough to assure a culture of safety, that enables working to do no harm. So, he studied the systemic issues in health care exploring the inadequacies of dominant paradigms. [1]

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

21. This Century Thinking - Webcast - What is 'systemic' and why is it important?

Richard Hodge

28 August 2020

It’s easy to blame politics for slow progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, I’m seeing a deeper need to expand thinking and action in three integral ways:

Richard Hodge

4 August 2020

20. Radical Rethink (2)

Richard Hodge

4 August 2020

On progress and how we measure it. A second response to Angus Armour’s call for a radical rethink [1].

As Victoria enters stage-4 lockdown to contain COVID19, the cost of $2B per week is a hit to the state and national productivity. The blunt assessment: “staggering” economic downturn [2].

Richard Hodge

21 July 2020

19. Radical Rethink (1)

Richard Hodge

21 July 2020

As we enter our first economic recession in 30 years, Angus Armour calls for a radical rethink. “We must revive our passion for bold economic reform.” [1]

What if we started by listening to Professor Stephanie Kelton’s [2] radical rethink on Modern Monetary Theory

Richard Hodge

26 June 2020

18. What Leaders Count

Richard Hodge

26 June 2020

What Leaders Count. To redress 200-years of energy recession, please, can we stop omitting measures inconvenient to our story?

In celebrating a life, we value a person in their being, their giving and the difference they made to people and the planet.

Richard Hodge

19 June 2020

17. Leaders Act Systemically

Richard Hodge

19 June 2020

Last week, racism led the news. This week, recession.

Our first recession in 29 years and there is now "no chance of avoiding a deep recession” [1]. I wonder whether negative economic growth for two successive quarters, or twelve, is the worst we expect to face?