Over the past year, like millions of other people, I have been "playing" with various AI applications, chiefly ChatGPT and DALL-E. And like millions, I have watched with astonishment as these tools rapidly advance. After it first launched, I asked ChatGPT about me. It told me that I had died three years ago. I said, … Continue reading Fleeting Beauty of Life

© 2022 by Alan AtKisson Part 1 in a series of essays. DRAFT published 19 July 2022 at AlanAtKisson.com In 1999 I published my first book, Believing Cassandra. That book – which opens with a retelling of the history of another book, The Limits to Growth (1972) – was an instant hit in its very … Continue reading Getting Better, or Getting Worse? Revisiting my book Believing Cassandra

The title is a play on words. Yes, I am completely closing down my nearly 30-year-old company, AtKisson, Inc., and English uses the phrase "for good" to mean "permanently." The last logo of the AtKisson Group But I also want to celebrate that company's history, because it truly aimed to be a force for good: … Continue reading Closing my company — AtKisson, Inc. — for good

In 1983 I recorded my first demo album, a ten-song cassette of original songs. I was 23, living in New York, just starting out as a singer/songwriter, and I needed this album to start getting gigs. The album, titled "Whitewing" after the title track, was recorded in my friend Darryl Cherney's bedroom/studio, with his huge … Continue reading World premier for “Christmas Night” – A song from the archives

By Alan AtKisson In 2021 I donated all the copyrights and licensing agreements for the “Accelerator” – a set of tools that I and colleagues created, developed, and used around the world, over a period of nearly 30 years – to the international non-profit organization Compass Education. “Accelerator” has three main parts: (1) the Sustainability … Continue reading Compass, Pyramid, Amoeba: How these tools for accelerating sustainability came to be, how they began spreading around the world, and what’s going to happen next

I am pleased to announce that I am donating all the sustainability tools that I and colleagues have developed over many years, operating as AtKisson Group, to Compass Education, an international non-profit with a big vision: reaching 1 million teachers.  Compass Education will also manage all professional and commercial licensing of the Sustainability Compass, the Pyramid workshop, … Continue reading A big step toward a big vision

There is a lot of advice packed into my books, much of it focused on making change happen. But if I were to lift up just one reflection on leading change in organizations, one that I still both observe and try to practice in my own work, it would be this one. Click for large … Continue reading The secret to making change happen

There is a story behind this little inspirational poster, the second in my series (and free to share). Twenty years ago, I wrote a song called "Goin' to the Top", dedicated to the people of New Orleans. I had hoped (and in fact had been promised) that Aaron Neville would perform the song at a … Continue reading Making your own road