How Special Conversations Create Collaboration
The choice of dialogue is also a matter of strategy. In business that choice can add competitive advantage to enterprises willing to collaborate.
View ArticleThe Paradox of Success and Meaning: A Call for Meaningful Collaboration
As a leader, have you hit your targets and achieved success but still feel something’s missing? I’ve been there, and you’re not alone. In this article, I unpack the paradox of success versus meaning...
View ArticleA New Language for Climate Adaptation: Framing Climate Adaptation Beyond...
Climate models offer valuable scenarios, but they are still bounded by known variables and assumptions. When these scenarios are treated as definitive futures rather than possibilities, adaptation...
View ArticleAGAINST HIDDEN REDUCTIONISM: WHY COMPLEXITY THINKING IS NOT SYSTEMS THINKING
There is a great deal of talk these days about systems thinking. Whole libraries are dedicated to it, workshops branded in its name, consultants selling it as the next evolution in leadership or...
View ArticlePEOPLE ARE NOT APPS: THE HUMAN TRUTH BEHIND ENTERPRISE PERFORMANCE
People aren’t apps, and motivation isn’t something you can install. Unlike money or tech, human beings can’t be managed—they choose, adapt, protect, or engage depending on the culture around them....
View ArticleTHINKING OUTSIDE THE BUILDING: WHY IT’S TIME FOR A REEF ECONOMIC ZONE
By Jelenko Dragisic and Dr Keith Noble At a recent gathering of urban and regional planning professionals, we introduced the concept of the Reef Economic Zone. As part of our session, we ran a short,...
View ArticleTHE HIDDEN PATH: What Quantum Tunnelling Teaches Us About Organisational Change
Organisations, like molecules, can become locked into a particular configuration. Old routines. Entrenched identities. Layers of habit that make change feel uphill. Conventional thinking tells us to...
View ArticleBEYOND SYSTEMS THINKING: TOWARDS A COMPLEXITY THINKING ETHIC
This piece proposes that complexity thinking is not just a methodology. It’s a moral and epistemic stance. It begins with the unsettling truth that we are not neutral observers of a system, but...
View ArticleTHE GROUNDWORK MODEL: Why Strategy Begins Before It Begins
Strategy doesn't begin with answers. It begins with orientation and orientation begins with perception. The Groundwork Model invites us to slow down and prepare the ground before acting, so that...
View ArticleCOMPLEXITY DOES NOT ARISE FROM SIMPLICITY: Towards A New Diagnostic For...
The long-standing assumption that complexity arises from simplicity is intuitive, but possibly incorrect. Our tendency to see simple components giving rise to complex systems is shaped not by reality...
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