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Mark McKergow
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Author, consultant, coach, jazzer. Solutions Focus, Host Leadership, Sunday Assembly, Village In The City, UK Jazz News, Edinburgh, Yes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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🎥 Political editor @jamesrball.com breaks down The New World's exclusive that Michael Prescott - author of the dossier into the BBC - himself doctored Trump quotes in the report. It's an extraordinary revelation that calls into question Prescott’s journalistic judgement

Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Our team have been busy today connecting with different communities to talk peace building. While @nuthmani.bsky.social and @katie-hunter.bsky.social were invited to share our ideas with the Scottish Greens Women’s Network, @jazzawi.bsky.social gave a presentation to the Sunday Assembly conference.
September 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Robert Jenrick claims Acts of Parliament, passed by Parliament, undermine (checks notes) parliamentary sovereignty! 😂😂😂😂🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tory candidates must pledge support for leaving ECHR or stand down, says Jenrick
Shadow justice secretary demands prospective MPs sign contract saying they stand for ‘Conservative values’ UK politics – latest updates
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Read this if you/someone you know is caught up in messy organisational life & wants to experiment in small steps! The Southpac presentation is 19 pages of delight. I'm sharing it with clients ...
New on my Substack: Designing micro-experiments for your organisation. With download links to an excellent and free resource from Daniel Hummerdal and the splendid people aty HOPLAB | By Southpac International Group. markmckergow.substack.com/p/82-designi...
82. Designing effective micro-experiments for your workplace
Small changes to workplace routines and rules can make big differences – and you don’t need permission to do them!
markmckergow.substack.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
New on my Substack: Designing micro-experiments for your organisation. With download links to an excellent and free resource from Daniel Hummerdal and the splendid people aty HOPLAB | By Southpac International Group. markmckergow.substack.com/p/82-designi...
82. Designing effective micro-experiments for your workplace
Small changes to workplace routines and rules can make big differences – and you don’t need permission to do them!
markmckergow.substack.com
May 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Xintong Xintong Xintong Xintong Xintong #yiddle-i-po #goons #snooker
May 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
“How can I encourage my team to take more ownership and initiative using Host Leadership?” My latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/markmcke...
79. “I’m trying to lead as a host. How can I help my people take ownership more?”
This real-life question is well worth taking a moment to consider through the lens of Host Leadership
open.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This week's Steps To A Humanity Of Organisation is about the Solution Focused 'Approach' - the way to approach people to help them into new conversations. And a very interesting new podcast, Towards Solutions. @antonstellamans.bsky.social markmckergow.substack.com/p/78-a-solut...
78. A Solution-Focused ‘Approach’ – meeting people anew
The way we ‘approach’ our clients – literally – is key
markmckergow.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:20 PM
How can we use solutions from nature's millions of years of evolution in tackling today's problems? And how does that line up with hashtag#SolutionFocus? My latest on Substack markmckergow.substack.com/p/77-natures...
77. Nature’s solutions – millions of years of ‘finding what works’
A recent Substack from Brian Klaas reminds us that nature has been evolving effective ways to do things for a very long time. I explore the parallels with Solutions Focus
markmckergow.substack.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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"Into this pitch darkness we're hurled
Where there's not a glimmer of light
It's not the end of the world
It's just the middle of the night"
Interesting blog by @markmckergow.bsky.social on Trump's 'accusation in a mirror' strategy.
markmckergow.substack.com/p/76-trumps-...
February 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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You can’t spell FELON without ELON.
February 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
go.bsky.app/NRqmCfk I’ve created a starter pack for Solution Focused folk on Bluesky. Let me know if you’d like to be added to it
January 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Ian Dunt back on top form today!
One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch. She may well be the most hapless opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama. iandunt.substack.com/p/one-week-i...
One week in the life of Kemi Badenoch
She might be the single worst opposition leader we've seen in our lifetime. She makes Michael Foot look like Barack Obama.
iandunt.substack.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
@colphilosophyjg.bsky.social Good to see you here John!
January 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
NEW: Steps to a humanity of organisation #74. Jimmy Carter – suffering the curse of far-sightedness?

The only US President with whom I have shaken hands (so far) – a great man and a flawed leader? With the teaching story of the dragon and the watermelon!

markmckergow.substack.com/p/74-jimmy-c...
74. Jimmy Carter – suffering the curse of far-sightedness?
The only US President with whom I have shaken hands (so far) – a great man and a flawed leader?
markmckergow.substack.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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It hasn’t all been doom and gloom… Though we’ve had our fair share this year…
December 29, 2024 at 9:33 AM
My latest on Steps To A Humanity Of Organisation: To LISTEN, it can help to be SILENT open.substack.com/pub/markmcke...
73. To LISTEN, it can help to be SILENT
These two anagrams can go hand in hand so well – as shown by this recent JSFP article
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December 13, 2024 at 7:45 AM
72. Farewell to John McKnight: pioneer of Asset Based Community Development.

His final work 'From Reform to What Works' is typically full of wisdom, idealism and pragmatism - and a hint of SF

markmckergow.substack.com/p/farewell-t...
November 27, 2024 at 5:58 PM
This free online event starts in about 45 minutes! Hope to see you there #SolutionFocus
I'm doing a live UKASFP video call with Paul Z Jackson this coming Tuesday 7pm UK time about the new edition of The Solutions Focus book, why now, what's changed and how #solutionfocused people can get into print. Host will be Martin Buckley. Open to all, free to register at lnkd.in/eEUpcYK3
November 26, 2024 at 6:16 PM
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Stunning Lowry-esque match programme for Ipswich v Man Utd (liberated from the other place)
November 24, 2024 at 2:08 PM
I'm doing a live UKASFP video call with Paul Z Jackson this coming Tuesday 7pm UK time about the new edition of The Solutions Focus book, why now, what's changed and how #solutionfocused people can get into print. Host will be Martin Buckley. Open to all, free to register at lnkd.in/eEUpcYK3
November 23, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I have put together a Starter Pack for Sunday Assemblies and people connected with the Sunday Assembly movement. If you know of others, please let me know! #SundayAssembly go.bsky.app/6PV77E9
Sunday Assembly
Join the conversation
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November 22, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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💥 NEWS! 💥

Delighted to announce that we have TWO new Presidents at European Movement UK:

Caroline Lucas and Dominic Grieve

Our former President, Michael Heseltine stepped down at the AGM this weekend.

Onwards and definitely upwards!
www.europeanmovement.co.uk/new-european...
Caroline Lucas and Dominic Grieve join forces as new European Movement Co-Presidents
Caroline Lucas and Rt Hon Dominic Grieve KC have been unveiled as the new Co-Presidents of European Movement UK, the country’s fastest-growing pro-European organisation
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
November 18, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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I’m a refugee from X looking forward to better conversations here. Let’s listen to each other and be respectful here.
November 15, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Host Leadership in the age of the strongman: my latest on Substack open.substack.com/pub/markmcke...
71. Host Leadership in the age of the strongman
Might Donald Trump be a host leader? Revisiting my 2022 Host Leadership Gathering keynote in the light of current events.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2024 at 7:43 PM