Future Creation Conferences are based on learning, not teaching. In these conferences, learning is not something participants must 'learn' how to do. "They already know how. They just don't know that they know."

These once were called future search conferences. Future Creation Conference is a better name as they do more than just look for a better future for organisations and their people, they are a very large part of designing and creating the future.

What can we learn from the Occupy movement to help us build organizational cultures of high-trust?

Drawing on and extending prototype theories of creativity and leadership, Jennifer S. Mueller, University of Pennsylvania, Jack A. Goncalo Cornell University, ILR and Dishan Kamdar Indian School of Business theorize that the expression of creative ideas may diminish judgments of leadership potential unless the charismatic leadership prototype is activated in the minds of social perceivers. Study 1 shows creative idea expression is negatively related to perceptions of leadership potential in a sample of employees working in jobs that required creative problem solving. Study 2 shows that participants randomly instructed to express creative solutions during an interaction are viewed as having lower leadership potential. A third scenario study replicated this finding showing that participants attributed less leadership potential to targets expressing creative ideas, except when the “charismatic” leader prototype was activated. In sum, we show that the negative association between expressing creative ideas and leadership potential is robust and underscores an important but previously unidentified bias against selecting effective leaders.

Everyone agrees that business should “do what’s right,” even if they disagree over what the right thing is. One significant barrier to even talking about doing the right thing is vocabulary. The vocabulary applied to “doing the right thing” is messy and varied. Here’s a brief critical guide to the most common terminology.

Acceptance, Commitment & Conscious Living (ACCL) is the strategy for living promoted by the Minessence Group. Specific resources to facilitate ACCL include:

• the AVI (A Values Inventory);
• books (particularly Michael Henderson's Finding True North); and,
• web-based technologies to simplify the process, and reduce the time necessary, to identify your values.