Designing Our Future. Together.
Jonathan J. Halperin
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Solutions to today’s most pressing issues won’t emerge from within the traditional areas of expertise that have given us the dilemmas we face. We will need to draw much more widely from the palette of human creativity to think holistically and invent solutions grounded in the carrying capacity of the earth’s wondrous ecosystems -- even as we learn how to extend that capacity through new techniques of bio-mimicry and sustainable innovation.
If Einstein was right that time and space don’t really exist except as in relation to one another, so too leadership cannot now exist absent the ability to synthesize and integrate oceans of knowledge into effective implementation and powerful communications.
When I began to unhook from SustainAbility in 2008, after 20+ years, to co-found Volans, Jonathan was working with the US end of SustainAbility — and sent the London end of the Volans team a large cardboard box of multi-colored felt rocks, which initially I couldn't make head nor tail of. I thought he was mad, or overly American.
But I have to say that, over time, those felt rocks have become a central feature of the Volans culture, thrown by team members at other team members (or guests) on the slightest provocation. That aside, he's a consummate professional, creative collaborator, skilled communicator, and keen intellect—and I am delighted both to have had Jonathan as a colleague and to now count him as a friend.
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