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Coordination Theory: the basis for working together?

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06 Apr 2021

Matthew Taylor

In his fifth post for the RSA Living Change Campaign, Matthew Taylor explores some of the implications of the framework he has outlined over the last month and asks why ideas like these aren’t more widely known and used.
Wellbeing takes time

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01 Apr 2021

Ruth Hannan

As we emerge from Covid-19, Ruth Hannan argues there is an opportunity to shift from short-term solutions to approaches based on deeper understanding of citizens’ needs and which focus on systemic change.
Economic security and a better future for young people

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31 Mar 2021

Hannah Webster

If young people are to flourish in this new world of rapid change and insecurity, we need policies that support young people in the here and now, whilst also protecting their futures. Thinking about economic security is one way to do this.
Policy, politics and human motivation

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30 Mar 2021

Matthew Taylor

In the fourth of a series of blogs posts – part of the RSA Living Change campaign – Matthew Taylor explores how ideas used to understand human motivation and organisational change might also be applied to politics and policy.
The best of the Covid-19 response has nothing to do with “greed”

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25 Mar 2021

Toby Murray

This week, the Prime Minister claimed that the profit motive is behind the success of the UK’s vaccine. Despite his quick backtracking, we should use this moment to recognise what has truly been behind the best of the crisis. We need to push back on a framing that centres just one sector in a crisis that has bought people together as never before.
Cities of Learning: from pilot to impact

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24 Mar 2021

Tom Kenyon

It is nearly six years since it was recommended to create a 'Cities of Learning' programme to establish a model designing and delivering inclusive lifelong learning, tailored to the needs of local people and economies. The RSA’s Tom Kenyon outlines the progress that has been made.
The secret life of organisational culture

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23 Mar 2021

Matthew Taylor

The third in a series of blog posts relating to our Living Change campaign. This post explores modes of coordination - hierarchy, solidarity, individualism and fatalism - in the context of organisational culture and change.
Co-opting the guild for good

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19 Mar 2021

Alexa Clay

Ahead of the launch of the RSA's Good Work Guild, Alexa Clay, Director of RSA US, asks how we can re-imagine and deploy the medieval structure of the guild for modern 21st century change-making?
Piloting a new approach to lifelong learning

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17 Mar 2021

Mark Hall

Millions of people around the world urgently need to develop new skills as we recover from the pandemic. The RSA, with Bayes Impact and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, aims to help people on this journey with a new digital careers coaching platform.
The patterns we all wear

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16 Mar 2021

Matthew Taylor

Following my last introductory blog post, over the next few blogs I will explore a set of ideas by looking at how they might apply to us as individuals, to organisational culture and change, to policy, place and ideology.