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This latest colletion of Case Studies demonstrate just how much can be achieved in a relatively short time using a Systems Thinking approach in a wide range of local authority departments.It's a handbook for anyone faced with the apparently impossible task of improving service levels and dramatically cutting costs.

Phil Smith - playwright, walk-performance artist and author (Mis-Guides, Mythogeography, Counter-Tourism) uses his retracing of WG Sebald's walk round East Anglia to introduce a unique kind of hyper-sensitised walking. His exemplary walk goes beyond 'wandering around looking at stuff' and shows how every walk can be art, revolution and pilgrimage.

Former CEO of Shell Chemicals UK and Celltech, Fairtlough explains the alternatives to hierarchy (which he calls heterarchy and responsible autonomy) and shows how they can work in practice.

The pros and cons of New Public Management are already well-documented in the academic sector. In this first publication from the Little Heresies series, eight heretics, all leading thinkers and practitioners in their professional fields, explain the effects of neoliberal thinking across a wide range of services.

A practical strategy for transforming the UK and other healthcare systems... offering an affordable, sustainable and compassionate alternative to the present mess. Healthcare systems across the developed world are in trouble. Changing patterns of disease, an ageing population and advances in drugs and technology feed an inexorable rise in costs outrunning our best efforts to contain them. At a human level the system is coming under intolerable...

Prapto's Amerta Movement has inspired thousands of people. But what is Amerta Movement? And what is it about Prapto's work that so touches therapists, artists, musicians, dancers, teachers, performers and laypeople? 30 movement practitioners from around the world (who all trained with him) describe the impact of Prapto's Amerta Movement on them.

Builds upon the work of visionary UK dance artist, teacher and scholar Gill Clarke (1954-2011), who championed the value of somatic approaches within and beyond dance education and creative practice.

This is a practical (field) guide to foresight and foresight tools for leaders in business, the public sector and NGOs, to aid their practice in strategy, decision making and change.

The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there's been massive investment in public sector 'improvement', 'customer choice' has been increased and new targets have been set and refined.But our experience is that things haven't changed much. This is because governments have invested in the wrong things. Belief in targets, incentive...

We often find that the state of not-knowing can be a precursor to moments of rich discovery which possess a dynamic, transformative power that exceeds any prior expectation." From the Introduction In daily life, when we see, hear or touch something that we don't recognise, we are instantly at our most alert. In that condition of 'not-knowing' we are in a state of alive, lithe awareness: asking questions, inviting input, open to learning, looki...

This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism 'tactics' plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and its roots in film, music and literature.

The book's four sections - Understanding the Culture, Getting the Job done, Managing the People and Leading Strategically - reflect upon the dilemmas, tensions and pressures that face any new - and indeed current - leader in an academic environment

A book about developments in walking and walk-performance for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics. Phil Smith considers where things are at for walking (as art and as performance), psychogeography, and the use and abuse of public space.

Roy Bayfield, well-known for exploring the Googlemaps non-place Argleton, here writes about his three-year-long walk home from northwest England to his home town near Brighton. Using the book 'Mythogeography' as his guide, he describes a postmodern, post-psychogeography pilgrimage through wormholes, hospital, faultlines and Z-Worlds.

Brings together case studies from 6 different public sector organisations, in the UK and New Zealand, that bring about rapid and extraordinary change and show: how they did it, step by step, how they overcame initial resistance and hostility from staff, and, the unexpected benefits that can accrue.

This elegant book is a guide for any public, private, government or non-profit organization that needs to make better decisions. It sets out a simple approach (the Decision Loom), based on Systems and Design Thinking and Complexity Theory. It also describes the 4 core capabilities any organization must put in place for this approach to work.

A book about despair, climate change, zombie films, multiple apocalypses, the everyday, city-dwelling, zombies, walking and walk-performance, imperialism, sex, zombie literature, refugees, popular culture and zombies. Illustrated with the author's usual, unusual photographs of the everyday zombie.

Local money has been used for hundreds of years and throughout the world, yet very few of us understand what it's all about. This pamphlet explains the practical differences between national and local money - how local currencies work, what they can do that national money can't do, and why they are needed.

A collection of journal essays about how scenario thinking uses the capacious space of the 'fold' to encourage thinking around alternative scenarios. It describes the 'nuts and bolts' of scenario planning, and outlines the steps involved in the practice of developing scenarios, and the key considerations to ensure successful scenario planning.

Most managers understand the idea and importance of technological innovation. They observe it every day in new products, services and business processes. But few understand how to give their business the permanent ability to be innovative in everything that it does. Crucial in bringing this about is the way the enterprise manages its people, its internal organisation and networks.The key to competitive advantage Innovation in this context mean...