This one’s fairly long – quite a bit longer even than my usual over-long posts… Theme here is a framework called Spiral Dynamics (see a previous post on this), which is used to identify value-systems in individuals, groups and organisations. …
One of the professional hazards of working in the futures space is that, by definition, many if not most of the themes I’m working on are five, ten, fifty or more years into the future. Without people like me doing …
Still playing catch-up, but in the meantime I’ll post some of the links I’ve been accumulating over the past few weeks. These are some on the specific issue of trust in business, and the development of awareness about a ‘trust-based …
One more from the archives – or rather, a rework into another format of the ‘manifesto’ from the intro to my book Power and response-ability: the human side of systems. The basic version is part of the book, and also …
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As part of the setup for getting the ‘What is power, anyway?‘ slide-pack online at Slideshare, I’ve finally gotten round to doing something I should have done a year ago: a three-page reference-sheet version of the ‘Manifesto‘ on power in …
“An oldie but a goodie” – this one dates from way back in 2002, but is still relevant as a way to get people thinking about the human side of systems. Probably best viewed as a self-running ‘PowerPoint Slideshow’ – …
Still recovering from the TOGAF conference – about which I need to do a blog-report later, ‘cos some major shifts there – and still ridiculously tired from the way-too-early-start, way-too-late-finish days of the conference itself. But a key point came …
For a while now I’ve been describing myself as a ‘business anarchist‘, in part because a sizeable aspect of my work is ‘creative destruction’ of business assumptions and the like, for the purpose of clarifying the direction in which the …
More ramblings on the ‘business anarchist’ theme. The conventional ‘scientific’ assumptions about business reality – as in Taylor’s classic ‘Scientific Management‘ – assume that everything is based on predictable Newtonian-style rules and laws. It’s sort-of true, up to a point, …
I’ve been thinking quite a bit more about the ‘business anarchist‘ idea, following a couple of great conversations yesterday with Bas van Gils in the Netherlands and Stuart Curley in London. Hence a few more notes: Every business-consultant is, in …