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Critical Business School

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CBS is a school of schools. A space for thinking about thinking — in its actionable sense. A place where thoughtful practitioners can meet others in thinking.

One of its founding beliefs is that creativity exists before language. Everything else is production.

Most educational systems are editorial. They transmit books rather than ways of thinking. They employ people who could be curious — about themselves, about how they work — but who don’t feel economically motivated to be. The result is a missed opportunity on both sides: to look behind what we say, open up about how we think, and meet others through their version of creativity. When we teach editorially, we all end up striving to be someone other than ourselves.

CBS has no teachers or students. It has instructors and participants.

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Not All Technology Is Digital
Technology usually refers to devices. Screens, models, software, the things that need charging. That definition is too narrow to be useful, and it hides most of what a
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Meditate, Then Mediate
Leadership is usually described as something that happens between people. Much of it happens earlier, in the time spent working out what you think. Mediating and meditating are
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How to Play
Play is the most serious thing a creative person does.
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How To, or How Do I?
Value is a combination of utility and aesthetics, a protocol and a way of seeing. Which of your two terms is empty?