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HOW TO: BE MORE PIRATE

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 ! 

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"I'm convinced that for every person who reads and acts on this book the world will become that little bit better for all of us."


Sarah Ellis, bestselling author of Squiggly Careers

praise for how to: be more pirate

Emma Gannon, award-winning podcaster and author

Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations

Emma Gannon, award-winning podcaster and author

"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."

Cormac Russell, author of Rekindling Democracy

Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations

Emma Gannon, award-winning podcaster and author

"..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." 

Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations

Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations

Frederic Laloux, author of Reinventing Organizations

"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."

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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.  

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