Recommended reading, viewing and listening
Inspired by interesting questions, a great many good conversations, challenging tasks and crisis situations – or simply by things that move people in businesses and society. We believe that some of these ideas could be helpful, so we would like to share them here as short inputs to stimulate thinking or as a motivation for reflection.
Notes from our learning journey through Bhutan: encounters, observations and questions on Gross National Happiness, collaboration, responsibility and sustainable development – and what organisations can learn from them.
Five hours of hairpin bends, a UN speech in our ears and, at the end, a cold farmhouse in the Phobjikha Valley: a night in which our long-trained flexibility meets its limits – and the question of how we deal with expectations nobody has voiced.
With Gelephu Mindfulness City, Bhutan wants to chart its own path of development: a new city in the south that combines Bhutanese values with innovation and gives young people a future at home. The key facts at a glance.
At Thimphu's famous roundabout, in the only capital in the world without traffic lights, we watch a traffic officer at work – and see how a brief glance is enough to bring collaboration into flow.
An aha moment at Cheri Monastery: rainwater trickling quietly from vessel to vessel.
At Rinpung Dzong in Paro, Karma shows us an image you encounter everywhere in Bhutan: four animals at a fruit tree. For him it stands for teamwork – for us, it raises the question of how something lasting emerges when responsibility is shared.