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Nurture Development / Blog  / ABCD Thought Leadership (Page 13)

Death is a community affair: Con Carey and the Twelve Apostles

February 3, 2015
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[caption id="attachment_742" align="alignright" width="143"] Con Carey[/caption] On Saturday April 1st 1978 in the Irish village of Brosna, Co. Kerry, a burial of a local man...

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For want of a neighbour Democracy was lost

January 27, 2015
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[caption id="attachment_728" align="alignright" width="260"] Image taken from http://www.lostcrafts.com/Blacksmith-61.html[/caption] Benjamin Franklin in The Way to Wealth (1758) wrote: For want of a nail the shoe was lost, 
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Question the Questionable Questions: Worklessness or Community abundance?

January 22, 2015
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Recently someone asked me this question: "how can you use Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) in communities to address a culture of worklessness?" Questions like this slip...

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Towards a life, not a service

January 12, 2015
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This week's post is a video blog. It's a recording of my presentation at the One Community Conference, convened by Aberdeen Council, (Self Directed...

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Everything but the kitchen sink

January 9, 2015
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In Ireland at this time of year, we ask each other: 'how did you get 'over' the Christmas?' To which the standard refrain is:...

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Mrs Moseley and how I discovered the Art of Connecting

December 5, 2014
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The following blog has been written by William Lilley. “There is no such thing as strangers, just friends you’ve not met yet!” To this day I can...

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Are You Being Served or Stifled? Paging Mr. Lucas

November 27, 2014
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Are You Being Served? is a wonderful BBC sitcom from the 70’s, it follows the exploits of employees at London's Grace Brothers department store, as...

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The 7 Tactics of Hidden Persuaders

October 19, 2014
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In 1957, The Hidden Persuaders was published. It quickly gained national attention and launched Vance Packard's (the author) career. The Hidden Persuaders lays bare the...

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Black Swans, White Swans, and Ugly Ducklings

October 12, 2014
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The Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) is a large waterbird, a species of swan, which breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia....

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7 Habits of Institutional Radicals

October 2, 2014
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[caption id="attachment_3876" align="alignleft" width="300"] Jerome G. Miller, A Bone Fide Radical[/caption] In last week’s post I shared some thoughts on the habits of non-credentialed connectors....

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Only connect: Commissioning from an Asset-based perspective

September 16, 2014
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The following post explores the challenges that Commissioners and folk who Procure goods and services for various Public Sector organisations are likely to encounter...

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The Parable of the Norsemen and Eskimo: musings on Resilience

September 4, 2014
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If you work with communities it is hard to get through a single day without multiple mentions of the term resilience. It is of...

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