Personal and Family
13,866 a little history of my dad, who died on 4 November this year – thanks everyone for the support https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_phil-taylors-funeral-and-wake-monday-24-activity-7394511291580567552–ynZ – and his obituary in the Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/30/phil-taylor-obituary
6,960 A simple heartfelt appeal ‘don’t call *my* dad ‘dad’’ (surprisingly popular amongst medical viewers…) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_to-all-those-in-the-caringmedical-professions-activity-7405713268603764736-_vdi
Everything Is Miscellaneous
11,599 reflections on a cycle path ‘desire line’ by the Wheatsheaf Hall in Vauxhall, London, and the systems around the story https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_i-think-this-might-actually-be-my-picture-activity-7313828186700566530-A4-f
2,927 RedQuadrant is 16! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_redquadrant-is-16-sixteen-years-ago-something-activity-7345802670504378368-36IN
Things We Tentatively Think Are Very Helpful
5,892 Most attempts to ‘manage demand’ end up shifting it around the system – or even making it worse. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_complexity-publicservices-withyou-activity-7320341918352039938-hFre
5,330 Most consultants pride themselves on having answers – I think that’s a problem. In the public sector especially, we’ve all seen the ‘expert’ parachute in with a ready solution. And how often it doesn’t stick. What if we did consulting differently? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_systemicconsulting-activity-7381231072266719232-3Hy9
5,234 If your organisation isn’t practising – not preaching – honest conversation, clarity, learning, culture, and purpose… what exactly is it doing? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_agile-digitisation-productiveconversations-activity-7343179569169899520-Wm15
5,185 There’s only seven ways to save and improve public services https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_theres-only-seven-ways-to-save-and-improve-activity-7289907636777439232-zaaB
2,291 If we’re going to get through this, we have to take back the horrors of war – about how we work to avoid Somebody Else’s Problem Fields. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_somebody-elses-problem-activity-7310231449377341440-3Fey
Relational Public Services
7,523 integrated service development – a rip-off of an XKCD comic https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_how-services-proliferate-adapted-from-activity-7284101914785415168-KyK7
5,517 Are the rebels with a cause actually preventing the very change they campaign for? My provocation paper – perhaps too provocative – about how the way we argue for ‘relational public services’ is counterproductive https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_provocation-relational-public-services-activity-7288194671233679361-l4yL
3,856 Relational practice, relational leadership, relational public services. Behind the buzz sits something older and simpler – the idea that good life, good work depends on good relationships. My summary of my papers and thoughts emerging from the ‘relational public services’ discussion https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_relational-public-services-some-learning-activity-7388842086483259393-FERx and on the blog, ‘how to move to relational public services’ https://chosen-path.org/2025/10/26/how-to-move-to-relational-public-services/
2,224 on the need for teams doing social care to work only on social care, a very practical issues for relational public services https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_more-than-once-redquadrant-has-sent-social-activity-7406599731298324480-wwv9
Things We Have Absolutely, Definitively, Fixed
3,506 Introducing ‘RedQuadrant AI Consultants’: Replacing Humans with Algorithms. A programme in which we successfully matched the ROI of AI adoption internationally!! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_futureofwork-consulting-leadership-activity-7312722932001112064-mPYn
2,400 we fixed system thinking with accreditation! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_systemsthinking-personaldevelopment-leadership-activity-7312753090766557184-hESh
A World In Turmoil
6,086 Here’s the problem with public service ‘policy’ at the moment, in the UK. It’s hard to know what it means. A critique of the London NHS Neighbourhood Health Services ‘target operating model’ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_neighbourhood-health-service-london-case-activity-7333028795869757441-xMFr
5,365 We are not living through a shift of ideology. We are living after ideology. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_systemchange-complexity-culture-activity-7353314060563611649-_kWj
3,980 Maybe the ‘bad news’ is the ‘good news’: that sense – and reality – of groundlessness gives us room to build something genuinely new. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_i-spent-winterval-taking-stock-of-2024-and-activity-7282325400075046915-ViQ4
3,233 Local government is facing massive mergers and separations. We’ve just delivered the best business case in record time – and we can actually implement too! [Remember that, please!] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_local-government-is-facing-massive-mergers-activity-7371086611532636160-HN3Z
3,221 As politicians acknowledge their direct power over the hashtag#NHS with the abolition of NHS England, beware the Control Dilemna! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_the-scio-organisational-matury-model-manager-activity-7315653950181965824-TpRB
2,598 Devolution and reorganisation are coming… Here’s some dirty secrets no-one talks about https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_devolution-and-reorganisation-are-coming-activity-7297535133161574400-HbHG
2,548 What to do when everyone’s changing everything without thinking or caring about the consequences https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_theres-a-lot-happening-activity-7307664703923576833-1n4m and (2,481) another post about a world in which all the pieces are being thrown in the air… https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_hsj-icbmergers-integratedcare-activity-7325429570424233984-C26Y
See also
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