December 1, 2023
A painful Metro journey in Paris
Though ostensibly talking about the same thing – a rail system in Paris - everyone was trying to solve a different problem, so the Metro was decades late.
May 9, 2019
Are you leaving your delivery team behind?
Of course, this attempt is often anything but collaborative and the resistance hardens. The whole collaborative…
April 23, 2019
The Light on the Hill – a direction not a destination
When facing complexity nothing is certain. So much is ambiguous, even unknown. The knowledge doesn’t exist so the team…
April 17, 2019
When being clear may instead dull the light on the hill
As it turned out, the real value of the broader and less distinct "light on the hill" only became apparent later, with…
April 11, 2019
A Parent’s Guide to Complexity
We may not know what it’s going to take to get there but we know that this is what we are working towards.
March 13, 2019
Experimenting with a new thought……. by Bridget Marsh
So I get clients to experiment.....try a new thought. Like trying on new ideas they need to see how it feels and…
March 11, 2019
Just try stuff…. (or let’s call it experimentation)
she just tries something, checks to see if it is getting her closer to a useful result, and then either does more of…
March 5, 2019
Is Best Practice Water Management a Myth?
By focussing on delivering a best practice program we greatly increase the likelihood that we are doing this program…
February 18, 2019
The Hard Truth at the Heart of Collaboration
If I continue to show myself as an expert who must behave ‘expertly’ to meet expectations, I hide who I really am. I’m…
February 11, 2019
Bankers and the Path of Vulnerability
The story of Ken Henry and the Commission is a story about vulnerability and our powerful desire to minimise it.
January 25, 2019
Manual focus on collaborative capability
How your brain can be "rewired" by changing a long established practice- relevant in collaboration as much as…