“If your organisation actually lived its values then you probably wouldn’t need to put them on a poster on the wall” I used to think this was a really cute quote. I’m used to values being something the board decrees...
I love the quarterly Dev days that SCIO puts on – an opportunity to sit down with like-minded folks and talk about the world through various systems lenses. One of the situations we explored at the last Dev day was the...
I was on the train a while back, when the conductor announced: “We apologise for the delay to this service, caused by technical difficulties arising from train allocation at Worcester Shrub Hill”. The lady with the...
Here are all the answers from our 2017 Christmas card. Turns out a lot of people found it harder than we were expecting! There are actually more than twenty four answers hidden here, and several have more than one...
Jargon starts out as the communication of technical concepts, but it quickly becomes at least as important that ‘we are the people who speak like this’. Just one example of how substance-level meaning and...
We had some fun with our Christmas card this year seeing how much corporate jargon we could squeeze into a seasonal scene. You can download a printable pdf version from here to post in your office. Have fun –...
We’ve all sat in meetings where everyone knows that nobody knows what’s actually going on, yet we plough on regardless. Sometimes though, this sense of meaninglessness can become pervasive in a whole team...
When we (Visual Meaning) interview leaders to find out what they want visualised, we apply a fairly rational process to how we structure the content. What we’ve found though is that we can usually tell what needs to be...
Sometimes back-of-an-envelope drawings take on a life of their own. Here’s one I drew a few months back that keeps generating more and more interesting conversations. We’ve christened it the “meaning curve”, and I...
Few things in life are as satisfying as the sense of meaning – understanding what’s going on and caring about it. It’s a great feeling at an individual level, but at a group level it can change the world. As Margaret...
