Join the full conversation on Linkedin: https://lnkd.in/p/ejeNWSq2A council, a regional mayor, and a neighbourhood can all have evidence for what they want to do - and still disagree about what the place needs.How would a ‘rewired state’ handle that?The Local Government Information Unit (LGIU)’s new report, ‘Rewiring the state: unlocking local government’s role’, says ‘Rewiring … Continue reading How will a rewired state resolve disagreements?
My pessimistic prediction for English local government: abolish two tiers, then recreate them at a larger scale, with less local autonomy. Tell me I’m wrong?
Join the full conversation on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/p/egSeRCHHMy pessimistic prediction for English local government: abolish two tiers, then recreate them at a larger scale, with less local autonomy. Tell me I'm wrong? I don’t expect care to stay with unitary councils. I expect a national care service, increasingly joined to health, with control devolved selectively to … Continue reading My pessimistic prediction for English local government: abolish two tiers, then recreate them at a larger scale, with less local autonomy. Tell me I’m wrong?
Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #240
Courses and events Commissioning and Innovation: playing on a bigger stage A practical three-day programme for commissioners working in complexity that helps commissioners, transformation leaders, and partners work more effectively across complex systems. It combines practical tools, public service examples, peer learning, facilitated exercises, and direct application to participants’ own challenges. Open for enquiries. https://link.redquadrant.com/CommissioningAndInnovation … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #240
Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #239
My weekly posts No escape, no prison – on other perspectives on systems | cybernetics | complexity Cybernetics and complexity are best treated as useful ways of seeing rather than complete descriptions of reality. I reject a hard divide between cybernetics and complexity: both can address adaptation, emergence and uncertainty, though they often start from different … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #239
No escape, no prison – on other perspectives on systems | cybernetics | complexity
Join the discussion at LinkedIn: do you see stability, or change? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_theres-no-escape-from-the-fly-bottle-there-share-7508071308329496576-vgPl/ There’s no escape from the fly-bottle. There are only more or less useful fly-bottles (and knowing that is, of course, an escape). I offered ‘A more useful fly-bottle – systems | cybernetics | complexity in six diagrams’. It was ‘a’ view, in the spirit … Continue reading No escape, no prison – on other perspectives on systems | cybernetics | complexity
The consultant is in the system: a practice lab for helping without taking over – Benjamin P Taylor, Wednesday 30 September 2026, 12:15-13:45, online, free
The system is inside the practice: making relational, place-based public services ordinary – Benjamin P Taylor, Thursday 8 October 2026, 12:30-14:00, online, free
Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #238
Courses and events Commissioning and Innovation: playing on a bigger stage A practical three-day programme for commissioners working in complexity that helps commissioners, transformation leaders, and partners work more effectively across complex systems. It combines practical tools, public service examples, peer learning, facilitated exercises, and direct application to participants’ own challenges. Open for enquiries. https://link.redquadrant.com/CommissioningAndInnovation … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #238
Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #237
My weekly posts A critique of Taylor’s ‘A more useful fly-bottle – systems | cybernetics | complexity in six diagrams’ – (also Taylor, 2026) I’m testing my own systems thinking against its strongest criticisms. Shared understanding, better conversations and elegant frameworks are not enough if structures, power, resources and incentives remain unchanged. Difference and conflict need not … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #237
