Doing extraordinarily good things with extraordinary resources...

Great post by Richard Branson.

Google doing business for good

Inspirational Thoughts on Innovation

Some great quotes compiled by Paul Sloan (@PaulSloane):

Complexity Sunday

Here is a list of links as posted to Twitter for "#Complexity Sunday", January 19, 2014.

Traffic Jam Economics

Complexity Digest - Networking the Complexity Community

Jordan Pollack. "Beyond Competition"

Interview Francis Heylighen

CASR3PM

The Rule of Six - Judy Sorum Brown

Paul Hawken: The Biology of Technology

An intriguing discussion with environmentalist, entrepreneur and author Paul Hawken.

Paul Hawken and Joel Makower

Watch a 70-Year-Old Prefab House Unpacked and Rebuilt Over 48 Hours

This is really quite remarkable. It looks like some parts are new, however, for a structure 70 years old, it is in great condition.

Read the Gizmodo article and watch the video here.

Eight Story Timber Office Building

Case study of an eight story timber office building with precast and prefabricated components. Good article.

Click here for article.

"There is no substitute for profound knowlege." - W. Edwards Deming

I recently read an article at Quality Digest called Profound Knowledge in Complex Systems: A Business Case. The article describes the work of Andrew McKeon who recently keynoted at the W. Edwards Deming Institute and Purdue University's 2013 Annual Fall Conference.  McKeon spoke on the importance of sustainability and "doing the right thing" in business. He defines sustainability in two words: Systems Thinking.  McKeon says “The ultimate system is our planet, and the ultimate aim is survival and continuation of life over the long-term,” He goes further to say Deming’s ideas on understanding systems are necessary to solve today’s problems.

If you have an interest in systems thinking and sustainability, I recommend this article. You can read the article here: Profound Knowledge in Complex Systems: A Business Case