Announcing PNI2 hangouts
Hey everyone. We are excited to announce that, because we have got to (somewhere around) 50 registered members, we are going to start holding bi-monthly "hangout" calls. These will be times to connect and share ideas with each other. Here's the plan. The first Friday...
The intricate art of PNI. Making sense of PNI instruments
The concept of PNI seems to be easily understood by many who are confronted with it for the first time. Simple explanations like asking a question whose answer is a story and asking questions about stories usually do the trick.To explain the method itself, especially...
Receiving the baton
(Note: This post was written by Daryl Cook, who recently joined the PNI Institute as an Associate Member.) Ron felt the ‘whack’ of the baton as it swung up into his hand from the first blogger, Cynthia. He closed his hand around the baton, and sprinted off like mad...
Welcoming Bruce Waltuck
The PNI Institute is happy to announce that Bruce Waltuck has joined as an associate Member. Bruce Waltuck has been helping organizations through the challenges of change for more than 30 years. He co-created and led the U.S. Department of Labor's award-winning...
Complex systems don’t exist
Almost every day, but certainly any week I'm surprised to find people state "this is complex" or "this is complex adaptive system" or "we live in a complex world". It is not only novices in the field, politicians, audience-hungry businessmen or profit-seeking...
Broken commodities
In the Netherlands we seem to have a quite unique habit to call the IT industry the ICT industry, where the C stands for Communication. Personally I don't believe IT helps in any way to improve communication, but one can have contact easier than say two decades ago....
How to Cook Pasta
Would you like me to tell you how to cook pasta? No? Pretend you do for a minute so I can make a point. It's about stories, I promise.First, choose a pot with a good thick bottom. If the pot's bottom is thin, the water will not boil evenly, and the pasta will clump....
Where to drop the pebble
I was looking back at some of my personal blog posts and discovered this one entitled 'Where to drop the pebble' from October 2011 which I thought was worth sharing here on the PNI2 site more than three years later as every word is still very relevant, and little did...
Open membership
We are happy to announce the opening of membership in the PNI Institute. For more information, please see the new "About membership" page. We look forward to seeing new members join and help PNI grow. Our goal in the next few months is to get to at least 50 members.
The role of PNI in Natural Capital
Earlier this month I ran a PNI-based workshop at the Valuing our Life Support Systems Summit #VOLSS at the British Library in London.The summit, hosted by the Natural Capital Initiative (NCI), brought together 250 scientists, policy makers and business representatives...