The time has come, when breaking some rules is the right thing to do
Faced with chaotic leadership, growing inequality and an impending climate crisis, Sam Conniff's 2018 bestseller was the rallying cry so many needed to hear.
Enter the real life pirates...
From healthcare to education to big business, mutiny in Manchester to the climate pirates of the Caribbean, How to: Be More Pirate captures their applied wisdom. Packed with relatable examples and practical, applicable tactics for breaking and making rules - it is a blueprint for causing good trouble.
The only certainty is uncertainty - it's how we respond that matters.
Now is the time for pirates.
Published in 2020 by OWN IT !
other writing
Go to the Edges of the Map
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.
Mutiny in the Boardroom
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’.
When Loya Jirga Meets Extinction Rebellion
To save our democracies from rising levels of frustration, we need more more deliberative processes: a precedent set by some unlikely people and places
Robert Owen: a pirate in our midst
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
Off the Edges
Off the Edges
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.