My top ten most read posts in 2023

I thought this would be an interesting run-through. Notable that many of these were not written in 2023!

Three in joint tenth place

• There are ‘only’ seven ways to make savings and improvements in service organisations – from January 2021, a nice overview of one of my actual ‘own inventions’, our seven ways to save and improve model
• Are we here to fight alligators, or drain the swamp? Getting ‘upstream’ in service organisations, creating more transformational opportunities (late 2021)
• RIP Ryuichi Samakoto

Ninth place

• Are you a cat person or a dog person? A silly reflection on how people present in organisational life.

Eighth place

• Stochastic parrots will keep us trapped in our own mediocrity – AI will, of course, eat itself. Wrapped up in a complaint about LinkedIn’s AI generated articles.

Seventh place

• CPORT task definition – inspired by the tradition of Elliott Jacques, generating clarity in task assignment

Sixth place

• Complexity is not a paradigm shift – it’s an experience of the world, from 2021

Fifth place

• Transformation is a load of old b*ll*cks, isn’t it? Nothing like undercutting yourself, is there? 2021 again…

Fourth place

• An outline approach to organisation or service review – guess which year this is from?

Third place

• My favourite Peter Block quotes – give good guru. Feb 2021

Second place

• What kind of leader are you? Linkedin to my podcast interview on Rick Torseth’s Swamp Leadership – the problems with consulting, and with Adaptive Leadership. 2023!!

First place

• The Double Diamond as an example of some challenges of attribution in the history of ideas – a messy, multi-edited but ultimately useful and, I think, good-hearted look at attribution in our line of work.

Fascinating how very different these are from my top posts on LinkedIn this year!