Common Purpose Blog

There are many different incentives to try and get people and businesses to become more ‘green’, and in particular to reduce their carbon emissions. Do they work? Are carbon emissions dropping? And if they are, by enough to hit some of the targets that are thought to be necessary for the future safeguarding of resources [...]

Dishaa (our Venture which connected leaders in the UK and India) was so successful, unbelievably successful, that we have been asked to launch similar Ventures between lots of countries around the world (see www.commonpurpose.org/ventures). Dishaa means direction in Hindi, so we will have Phambili (direction in the Nguni languages inc. Xhosa and Zulu), Dao Xiang [...]

Below is Rosie Walford’s guest post about her experiences on Day 4 of the Dishaa event that took place in Pune, India. To start from the beginning, check out her experience of Dishaa Day 1. To learn more about the initiative visit the Dishaa website. In the final phase of Dishaa, the mood changed again. [...]

Day 3 of Dishaa was about “Birthing the creative moment”. Below is Rosie Walford’s insightful and intriguing blog about her experiences of this day and her personal reflections on how this is affecting her own perceptions of leadership. To start from the beginning, read her experience of Day 1 Everyone’s taking this adventure quite differently. [...]

Below is Rosie Walford’s guest post about her experiences on Day 2 of the Dishaa event taking place in Pune, India. To start from the beginning, check out her experience of Dishaa Day 1. To learn more about the initiative visit the Dishaa website. Responsibility and Complexity: This morning I discovered how much I admire [...]

The following is a guest post from Rosie Walford, a participant on the 2011 Dishaa event in Pune, India, sharing her experience from Day 1 of the course. Stay posted for further updates each day. We were a bunch of strangers from very mixed backgrounds and we were still being very polite on our first [...]

“Enlightened trial and error succeeds over the planning of the lone genius.” This is a quote from an ABC Nightline news story about IDEO, a company in Palo Alto, CA who are experts in nothing but the process of how to design something. Participants at the Dishaa event in Pune watched this on day two [...]

Yesterday, 40 leaders from the UK and India gathered at the Tata Management Training Centre in Pune, India for the first event of the five year Dishaa initative. Launched by British Prime Minister David Cameron on 28 July 2010, Dishaa is an initiative that will expand, enrich and energise relations between India and the UK. [...]