For Father’s Day, we dive into what it’s like to parent a new paradigm through Panarchy: the systems that govern nature between the predictable and unpredictable.
Mark Thompson joins us to cover the topics of network science, emergence, holistic thinking, biomimicry (living systems), biocentrism, Tai Chi, and how “Consilience”, a word that many of us are unfamiliar with, is just a way of bringing us together. Seeing things as parts in a whole can help us grow in exponential ways as we leave behind the machine age and enter the network age where the ceiling for possibility just keeps getting higher, and innovation is moving at the speed of light.
The potential to reach our full collective capacity exists and collaborating in this new age is being orchestrated by Panarchy.io, the world's first network design lab. Because networks are our nature, they are moving organizations, institutions, and people forward with the possibilities that exist to solve the world's greatest problems of inequality, hunger, poverty, and climate change, that continue to plague, and erode, our human, social and environmental world.
Mark says that the best way we can build better communities is through CARE. Caring for ourselves, our health, each other, and our surroundings.
Mark is a leading thinker in bringing together network design, transformational leadership, and digital capability and has co-founded Panarchy with Bob and Vince. As a former senior executive for global leaders including Dell and Microsoft, Mark delivered outsized gains in market share through ecosystem management and by applying tools, techniques, and technology to design and orchestrate networks. He has guided a wide range of organizations including The Presidential Libraries, HP, AT&T, and Nike on the power of networks and has written for Fast Company and Industry Week.
Connect with Mark: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-de-l-thompson-a4b6b51/
Upgrade and elevate your organization with Network Design: https://panarchy.io/
**Special thanks to Janine Benyus and Anne-Marie Slaughter for the work we included in this episode**
Again, thanks to composer Adrian Berenguer for supplying our theme music titled 'JOY' available on his album The Art of Loneliness - available on Apple Music Here
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