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Metathink is a consultancy specialising in developing and articulating coherent Business Philosophy.
A strong business philosophy is a beacon when decisions need to be made, a shared perspective that cuts across departments and roles, a vivid branding message for customers, and an emblem of company...
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Deeper connections through dialogue.
It has become accepted wisdom that business is conducted between people who know, like and
trust each other – but we don’t get to know, like and trust anyone just by talking about business.
Getting to know the person is at least as important as getting to know...
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The Enterprise Engagement Programme.
Enterprise Engagement is a team integration and employee engagement program that makes positive changes to organizational culture using the tools of critical thinking, practical dialogue and experiential learning. In this practical workshop participants will interact...
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The Thinking Toolkit is a set of activities and methods that enable a team or work-group to apply critical and creative thinking to a range of topics and situations.
Critical thinking is characterised by the question,
‘why are things the way they are?’
Creative thinking is characterised by the...
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Metathink provides a range of events and training for the Education sector. These events use the methods of philosophical enquiry and dialogue to develop reasoning, imagination and communication skills.
This can be used to support curriculum objectives, to develop explicit thinking skills programmes...
• That axioms are the simple self-evident beliefs that form the foundation of other ideas
• That all beliefs are up for grabs (except this one)
• That the world is stuck together with ideas
• Change the ideas and you change the world
• You change ideas by thinking the unthinkable
• The art of thinking the unthinkable is
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Philosophy is not renowned for its practical applications in the wider world outside the ivory towers and the panelled rooms of the professional thinking classes. Can philosophy really teach us anything about how to do business?
Well – of course – that does depend on what you mean by philosophy.
On the one hand there is academic
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