Our vision

Thinking clearly and creatively is our passion.

We believe that people can craft the future by thinking together effectively.

We don’t focus on the interpersonal side of change – like team building, relationships and personality profiling. We respect these tools but, on their own, they don’t equip groups to design better futures.

Nor do we offer the ‘scientific’ method of thinking – it is too mechanical and linear to handle complex changes in human systems.

Rather we have discovered, over 20 years of consulting and research, a ‘2nd Road’ to thought that liberates people to think through change quickly, effectively and humanistically.

This ‘2nd Road’ of thought was foreshadowed by Aristotle, but it has been largely neglected by the Western World for 400 years. This way of thinking involves the two big forces of creativity and community, rather than the scientific logic of cause and effect.

People create the future by dreaming about it and talking about it, not by analysing it.

We have turned this age-old approach into a modern methodology for change.

Listen as Tony Golsby-Smith discusses 2nd Road's methodology for change and how it has been influential in the achievements of incoming ABC Managing Director, Mark Scott.

Interview with Gerald Tooth, Media Report, ABC Radio National, 25 May, 2006

Our vision is that Australia will lead the world in reinventing management as the art of design rather than the art of control.