'Many are stubborn with regard to the once-chosen path, few with regard to the goal' -Nietzsche
A lot of this year has felt like living in a room where someone keeps rearranging the furniture in the dark. Reorganise, merge, separate, rename, publish a model, add a layer. We do it because it looks like action. It produces artefacts. It soothes the anxiety upstairs. But when the ground moves, gripping harder doesn’t … Continue reading My top posts in 2025 – all about how we avoid the real work
This year some of my most-read posts were about my dad’s funeral, a cycle path, and why consultants with answers are a hazard. That feels accurate, because it’s the same subject in three guises: what happens when real life meets a system that thinks it’s in charge. A desire line in Vauxhall tells the truth … Continue reading Life versus categories – reflections on my top posts in 2025
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 … Continue reading My top posts on Linkedin and the Chosen Path blog in 2025
My weekly posts Relational public services and reality I’ve seen RedQuadrant support councils by sending protected, person-centred social work teams to do complex case reviews. By focusing on what people want and can do, and by removing admin and system burdens from social workers, they deliver better experiences and save up to £17k per person each … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #203
What IF we enabled caring professionals to do good work? Join the conversation on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_more-than-once-redquadrant-has-sent-social-activity-7406599731298324480-wwv9 More than once, RedQuadrant has sent social work teams to clients to do complex case reviews — with adults who have multiple complex needs, ‘dependency’ on social care, whose care packages can run into six figures. They do more reviews per day than in-house … Continue reading Relational public services and reality
My weekly posts ‘When you realize the plot of the last 10 years was just a prologue…’ Over the last decade, things have felt like a relentless slog: Brexit, Covid, laying off colleagues, family bereavements, a nightmare house project, my dad’s decline and death, my own creaky health and work’s highs and lows. In the … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #202
‘When you realize the plot of the last 10 years was just a prologue…’. Join the conversation on LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_when-you-realize-the-plot-of-the-last-10-activity-7401538858854744064-ZHgj?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAACuq-oBecVFDW6PCf3lkoG-peMeuLBeoho I was given this phrase in a weirdly portentous way by ‘Grok’ ai — using someone’s prompt: Generate a meme, using a well known template, but with your own words on it. The goal of the meme should … Continue reading ‘When you realize the plot of the last 10 years was just a prologue…’
[This is the end point of a phase of a journey that start for me with having time on a Friday night to dig in to a dynamic twitter thread asking for 'a decent accessible history of relational practice/thinking/leadership (ideally short form)?' - my responses summarised here: https://stream.syscoi.com/2025/10/24/nick-kimber-on-linkedin-hello-can-anybody-point-me-to-a-decent-accessible-history-of-relational-practice-thinking-leadership-ideally-short-form/ And a more reflective piece here: https://chosen-path.org/2025/10/26/how-to-move-to-relational-public-services/ … Continue reading A Hundred Origin Stories – an Unfinished History of Relational Public Services – Parker, Dove, and Taylor (2025)
My weekly posts Think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ are dead, long live think-pieces saying ‘commissioning is dead, long live strategic commissioning’ Strategic commissioning is back, but the real barrier isn’t guidance — it’s whether places have the governance, honesty and cross-boundary funding needed to make real trade-offs. We need shared insight … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #201
Commissioning in the NHS - first as tragedy, then as farce? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_commissioning-compass-system-assessment-activity-7397048483675025408-5cIu The framework for strategic commissioning could be our chance to end the ritual of plans that never move money. It asks ICBs to be intelligent payors, segment populations, commission across pathways, and evaluate impact. The music is right. Doing the dance is going … Continue reading Commissioning in the NHS – first as tragedy, then as farce?
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