I suspect Leonardo da Vinci would have made a truly awful management consultant. He took years to get anything done, was constantly distracted by new ideas, didn’t finish half the projects he started, and as a...
I don’t mean can you remember them, I mean what are they? Here’s a thought experiment: if you were to re-title all of your organisation’s “Our values” posters so that they better described...
I started using the phrase “shared meaning” a couple of years ago to describe the outcome we were focusing on in the organisations we were working with, but I wasn’t prepared for just how quickly the phrase came to be...
“It is hardly possible to overrate the value … of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar … Such...
One of the most interesting jobs I ever had was when I was paid to tell lies. I didn’t see it that way at the time. I was running comms for a cost-saving programme in government, and the numbers we were...
There’s something missing. The newly released UK apprenticeship standard for Systems Thinking locates systems practice “in arenas where complex problems exist that cannot be addressed by any one organisation...
Most of our consultancy work sits somewhere in the overlap between systems thinking and visual thinking, and in this article I want to share an example of how these two worlds could be interacting with each other. There...
The main job of a school isn’t to help pupils get high grades, it is to help provide meaning. This is the function of curriculum. I’ve just started reading Martin Robinson’s Trivium 21c, a book that draws...
