HOW TO: BE MORE PIRATE

"For so long we have been told to stick to the rules - at school, in work, politics or at home -  and now with the help of How to: Be More Pirate, it's time to feel empowered to boldly rewrite them."

"..a call to action for all ethical practitioners working in the citizen space. A reminder that our contributions will never be measured by how well we complied with rules, or how well intentioned our interventions were, but by our courage and the quality of life of the people we serve." 

"What a breath of fresh air! No management lingo, no promises you'll make more profit. Instead, this honest acknowledgement: our organizations are all, in some form, out of touch and destructive. Let's start a joyful mutiny."

Often, all we need to embrace the unorthodox is the permission to do so. The idea of “the rebel pirate” can give rise to fertile, free-thinking environments, ripe for innovation. Fortune favours the bold, after all.

We are starting to see a new incarnation of activism - a trojan horse that could be infinitely more powerful than its predecessors, if executed carefully. For the next few decades we’ll likely witness a rise in ‘employee activism’.

To save our democracies from rising levels of frustration, we need more more deliberative processes: a precedent set by some unlikely people and places 

Sam Conniff and Alex Barker ask whether Robert Owen is far more pirate than we give him credit for, in this blog to mark the 250th Anniversary of Owen's birth in Newtown

In one way or another, 2020 dragged us all into unfamiliar territory, off the edges of any well plotted map. This new terrain requires different skills, different tools and a very different mindset.