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Don’t/DO buy this book — CITIZENS — How The Key To Fixing Everything Is All Of Us #CitizensNotConsumers

In case you hadn’t heard — I wrote a book, ‘CITIZENS — Why The Key To Fixing Everything Is All Of Us’. It’s OUT NOW! If you’ve followed my journey in any way over the last year. 💚I want to thank you all for your help so far, but as…

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Don’t/DO buy this book — CITIZENS — How The Key To Fixing Everything Is All OF Us
Don’t/DO buy this book — CITIZENS — How The Key To Fixing Everything Is All OF Us
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Published in New Citizenship Project

·Jan 30

What if democracy was RAPID?

Note: This is a 2023 updated version of a more exploratory Medium post I first wrote in 2018. Since then, my thinking on it has firmed up, and the New Citizenship Project team have had a couple of chances to put RAPID democracy into practice… The concept of RAPID democracy…

Politics

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What if democracy was RAPID?
What if democracy was RAPID?
Politics

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Apr 8, 2022

How can Local Government embrace the Citizen-led energy that came with the 2020 Lockdowns?

On 14 March 2020 — nearly two weeks before the first lockdown was imposed in Britain — a postcard dropped through my door. It read ‘Hello! If you are self-isolating, I can help.’ It gave the name, address and mobile number of someone who lived around the corner. A second…

Local Governmnet

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How can Local Government embrace the Citizen-led energy that came with the 2020 Lockdowns?
How can Local Government embrace the Citizen-led energy that came with the 2020 Lockdowns?
Local Governmnet

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Apr 5, 2022

In light of yesterday’s IPCC report, can we unfuck ourselves?

I’ve heard the different IPCC reports referred to as: Report 1. How fucked are we? Report 2 . How did we get this fucked? Report 3. How do we unfuck ourselves? (Also the format for the wonderful Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts podcast series) So, in light of the publication of IPCC report 3 , and with everything else going on in the world right now, I suspect you’re asking: can we unfuck ourselves?

Climate Change

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Climate Change

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Apr 2, 2022

What if organisations and nations focused less on “satisfaction” or even trust among customers/employees/people, and more on building AGENCY?

I talked about this last week in front 800+ people at the New Local Stronger Things conference, at London’s magnificent Guildhall — and I wanted to share it here. I define agency as “power to act on a scale commensurate with the task or challenge.” …

Democracy

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What if organisations and nations focused less on “satisfaction” or even trust among…
What if organisations and nations focused less on “satisfaction” or even trust among…
Democracy

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Mar 25, 2022

What if no one ever had to make impossible decisions?

The headlines this week in the UK are all about “security for working people” — but as the cost of living crisis intensifies, and with food prices in particular set only to rise further, more and more people are facing what The Trussell Trust rightly calls “impossible decisions”. 😣 The…

Economic Security

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What if no one ever had to make impossible decisions?
What if no one ever had to make impossible decisions?
Economic Security

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Mar 8, 2022

There is something potentially seismic and painfully, almost hopeful happening in Ukraine. The stories of Subject, Consumer and Citizen help us see it for what it is.

There is something potentially seismic and painfully, almost incredibly hopeful happening in Ukraine right now. The stories of Subject, Consumer and Citizen help us see it for what it is. Putin’s attack was pure Subject Story: raw autocrat power and imperial domination, straight out of the 19th century (if not…

Ukraine

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There is something potentially seismic and painfully, almost hopeful happening in Ukraine.
There is something potentially seismic and painfully, almost hopeful happening in Ukraine.
Ukraine

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Mar 5, 2022

What if the leaders of “the West”​ were to follow Zelenskyy’s lead — and involve us?

A few days ago, I wrote a LinkedIn post offering a way of seeing hope in this darkest time through the lens of the three “deep stories” I work with. …

Ukraine

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What if the leaders of “the West”​ were to follow Zelenskyy’s lead — and involve us?
What if the leaders of “the West”​ were to follow Zelenskyy’s lead — and involve us?
Ukraine

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Jul 21, 2021

Summer reading for Citizens

I’m in the process of writing a book called CITIZENS, due for release early 2022, and tapping into the insights of a growing mailing list as I do so. …

Citizenship

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Summer reading for Citizens
Summer reading for Citizens
Citizenship

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Jun 24, 2021

(How) should I write about Brewdog?

As part of the development of my forthcoming book CITIZENS: How to unleash the power of everyone and fix our f***ed up world, I’m experimenting with hosting a series of conversations to help me make what I hope is a decent first draft into a great book. The first will…

Sustainable Business

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(How) should I write about Brewdog?
(How) should I write about Brewdog?
Sustainable Business

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Jon Alexander

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Co-Founder, New Citizenship Project and Author, CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

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