Comment: Richard Yonck's definition of intelligence highlights its adaptive, self-sustaining nature, emphasizing responsiveness to the environment and long-term agency. This perspective aligns with Conversational Leadership, where intelligence emerges collectively through dialogue, shaping conditions for growth, resilience, and future possibilities.Intelligence: An emergent system’s ability to respond to its environment in order to improve its conditions, perpetuate itself and maximize its future freedom of action.
Credit: Richard Yonck
Source: Future Minds: The Rise of Intelligence from the Big Bang to the End of the Universe (2020)
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Conversational Leadership Workshop
In-person, 7–11 September 2026
Warbrook House, Hampshire, UK
In-person, 7–11 September 2026
Warbrook House, Hampshire, UK
We are living and working in conditions of uncertainty, complexity, and rapid change. This week-long workshop offers a space to practise Conversational Leadership as a shared, lived experience.
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