The clargo.com site is intended simply to reflect some of my more personal perspectives on life. If you have enjoyed them, and would like to know a bit more about my work/ministry by means of delving into my perspectives on working life, meetings, corporate structures, leadership, or indeed something about using business to alleviate poverty, then please follow the links below:
- Culturistics. My main work is as a ‘Strategy Engagement Consultant’ – helping organisations develop adventurous ambitions for their future and that of the planet and its people; and then developing frameworks by which their people can realise their dreams within that. My hope is to enrich people’s working lives beyond the drudgery of financial survival (or avarice) and into something that provides increased meaning, opportunity, belonging and relationships. The Culturistics.co.uk site helps people to embrace this vision for themselves, and helps them develop its personal application through LeadingbyAdventure.com
- Meeting Toolchest. My work in strategy engagement means that I facilitate a lot of events (meetings and workshops) and equip others in facilitative leadership skills. As a result, I have generated and acquired a lot of helpful resources over 35 years: ideas, tools, templates, techniques. I have done what I can to make these freely available to others through the Meeting.Toolchest.org site. Here people can get a better idea of what excellent meetings are all about, and find what they need to put their new understanding into practice.
- Reconxile. My early years in consultancy provided me with the freedom to try and help people in desperately poor areas, such as the Katwe slum in Kampala. In such areas, few have employment, and yet everyone needs money. For the rest there are only three options: charity, crime, or setting up a small income generating business. However, many lack the basic knowledge to make such a business work, so the Reconxile.org materials help them to transfer what they do understand (Uganda is about 90% active Christian) to the principles of a healthy business.
- Tesseracts. One of the key mechanisms I utilise for enriching people’s working lives is the application of scientific and engineering approaches to better empowering people and teams to make the difference they want to make. The outcome of that thinking was a book called Managing by Design and its supporting website on systematic management tesseracts.com A diagrammatic representation of this approach can be found here: https://www.tesseracts.com/Files/QFD_BigPic_Online.pdf
I am a Christian, but I have not always been. The thing is, when I was NOT a Christian, nothing was LESS likely to convince me of Jesus’ merits than somebody insensitively (and usually ineptly) trying to open or subvert discussions to introduce the topic. I accept that it works for some people, but not for me, nor for many of the people I know. My own journey was far gentler, rooted in my own curiosity, enabled by safe spaces, and toward the end of it, God showed up. In person.
And once that happened, the logic, the arguments, the reasoning, all had a new perspective.
However, that new perspective is totally personal and subjective. I cannot recreate it for others, and trying to do so would likely be totally counterproductive for them. But for any who are curious, I can at least share some of the steps in my journey for them to incorporate into their own exploration (adventure?) should they wish.