Hi Jon, I like it - thank you. And I agree with your comments.
In fact, I may adopt it myself next year! Best Wishes to everyone for Christmas and New Year. Keith. Dr K Blundell Leadership and Team Excellence Leader Innovation, Communication and Engagement (ICE) Product Development Global Operations Roche Products Limited 6 Falcon Way Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL7 1TW Office: +44 (0) 1707 36 6618 Mobile: +44 (0) 7990 777 127 Mail to: keith.blund...@roche.com<mailto:keith.blund...@roche.com> Registration Number: 100674 The information transmitted in this message is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. From: oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-boun...@lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Jon Harvey Sent: 18 December 2012 5:23 PM To: 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' Subject: [OSList] childlike Seasonal greetings! As always at this time of year, I spend some time reflecting on the past 12 months and thinking about the year ahead. And as I have done for several years previous, I have 'adopted' a new word in support of the 'I can' charity which helps children to communicate (http://www.adoptaword.co.uk/index.php). This year I have adopted 'childlike'... It did not take me long to choose this word. And I want it to represent two connected themes for me. Firstly the meaning of the word is about engaging with the world in a trusting, playful, creative and appreciative way. In my opinion, we need to do that more, far more. Sometimes, it seems to me, that people, corporations and governments persist in using old ways to solve knotty and wicked problems, even when those old ways make no real difference. With a tad more courage and innovation, more childlike ways might perhaps be deployed to sort out the problems more effectively. What do you think? And secondly, but more importantly, we need a world that likes children more! Recent events in Newtown, Connecticut and Nangarhar, Afghanistan, though very different, just underline how our world does not look after our children and young people nearly as well as we should do. Children are simply too often the forgotten casualties of war, economic mismanagement, bigotry and plain ordinary abuse. So I hope that 2013 will be a year when more children and young people get to live free from harm and full of the joy of growing up into amazing adults. Let us be more childlike (and child-liking) in how we create that world, a world that would be better for us all. May I wish you, your family, your friends and colleagues a healthy, happy and prosperous 2013. Jon _______________________________________________________________________________ Jon Harvey MBPsS Director " www.jonharveyassociates.co.uk<http://www.jonharveyassociates.co.uk/> | : j...@jonharveyassociates.co.uk<mailto:j...@jonharveyassociates.co.uk> * +44 (0) 7771 537535 | +44 (0) 1280 822585 | ¹ Skype: jonsharvey [cid:image001.jpg@01CDDDC5.A5DCF6F0] Helping you connect the prose and the passion to deliver superlative results [cid:image002.png@01CDDDC5.A5DCF6F0]<http://jonharveyassociates.blogspot.com/> Change leadership from a whole systems perspective [cid:image002.png@01CDDDC5.A5DCF6F0]<http://smallcreativeideas.blogspot.com/> Small creative ideas to support improvement from the bottom up [cid:image002.png@01CDDDC5.A5DCF6F0]<http://inspirationleadership.blogspot.co.uk/> What inspires leaders to keep on keeping on [cid:image003.jpg@01CDDDC5.A5DCF6F0]<https://twitter.com/#!/JonSHarvey> Twitter account [cid:image004.jpg@01CDDDC5.A5DCF6F0]<http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=5284740&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro> LinkedIn account Jon Harvey Associates Ltd Registered Office: Chandos House, School Lane, Buckingham, MK18 1HD Company Number 6661588 | VAT Registration Number 936 2921 11 Please consider the environment before printing this email. Thank you. All business mileage is offset with http://www.carbonfootprint.com/ [cid:image005.jpg@01CDDDC5.A5DCF6F0]
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