Author: antlerboy - Benjamin P Taylor

www.antlerboy.com * curator at www.syscoi.com * The Public Service Transformation Academy - Chief Executive - www.publicservicetransformation.org * RedQuadrant - public service network consultancy - www.redquadrant.com * SCiO - non-exec director - www.systemspractice.org * Quadrant Resourcing - excellent interim change people - www.quadrantresourcing.com I tweet at www.twitter.com/antlerboy Please connect to me at www.linkedin.com/in/antlerboy benjamin.taylor@redquadrant.com +44 (0)7931317230

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #49

Things about public | service | transformation, systems | cybernetics | complexity, ethics in public life, fascinating things and, this week, a warm and lovely puppy.Nicely formatted at https://antlerboy.substack.com/publish/post/53754606 What I’ve learned from my puppy.Social media really is for sharing pet pictures — sorry, but there’s no way around it. It’s good to have something to chew … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #49 →

What I’ve learned from my puppy.

https://videopress.com/v/Nk5cJ4Ry?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Social media really is for sharing pet pictures — sorry, but there’s no way around it.It’s good to have something to chew on.A backlog of (pe)email can be very distracting.It’s easier to get into a tight corner than get out.No to-do list is more important than a cuddle.Sometimes it’s nice just to feel the breeze in … Continue reading What I’ve learned from my puppy. →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #48

A high entropy edition with a high amount of valuable signal… many thanks to Sin Lu Tan who kept these newsletters and my LinkedIn/blog/Medium postings much better organised for these last few weeks!Nicely fromated as usual at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy Why can’t we talk the same language, when it’s so important?For change, management, innovation – for all … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #48 →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #47

Dealing with double binds, a systems approach to identifying vulnerability, supporting systems changers, deutero-learning, reading for public service transformation, aligning the concept of ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to precedents in cybernetics, ethics in public life, elephants in rooms disrupt object identification, the oldest animation, and Galaxies On The Other Side Of The Universe May Appear Bigger … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #47 →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #46

An absolutely overpacked bank holiday stream here, dive in if you will and thrash around. Apologies for banging on about ethics in a very boring way….Also cover songs, Dirty Dancing to the tune of Only Fools and Horses, Beluga babies, meta-rationality and metamodernism, sincerity, modelling, first class stamps, and flag-waving for Novi Sad.See with full … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #46 →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #45

Shinier version at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy Mythopoesis and family systems, neurons in fungi and autopoiesis, food sustainability, microscopic tardigrades, the invention of hallways and sad mangy pumas, McKinsey and Seinfeld and using time wisely, erratic justice and rat-running motors, creation of autocrats, fines for the underlings, neolithic figures and ‘the female brain’, the benefits cap and increasing … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #45 →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #44

See this more nicerer at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy I’m on leave (umm… ‘working holiday’) - so a special ‘randomised’ version this week. Your version is unique to you, randomly generated like the Subbuteo Rugby Scrum simulator (pictured) - so assume that all serendipities are perfectly arranged by the universe for you 🙂 The Subbuteo Scrum Simulator - … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #44 →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #43

See https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy for better formattingGovernment-funded systems thinking practitioner learning - and… more 🙂 Top phive of the week Taking systems thinking practice to a new levelTaking systems thinking practice to a new level Everyone from the United Nations to the OECD to old bastions of management thinking like Harvard Business review recognises that systems hinking and … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #43 →

Taking systems thinking practice to a new level

Taking systems thinking practice to a new level Everyone from the United Nations to the OECD to old bastions of management thinking like Harvard Business review recognises that systems hinking and handling complexity are the key skills for the future. Can these skills — which are so core to innovation — be formalised? Professionalised? Can they support formal careers? Should … Continue reading Taking systems thinking practice to a new level →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #42

1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42 I have a great new gig, the buying of reputation and spread of corruption, rejection, giving advice, systems change, and a lot lot more… (Better formatting at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy) Top phive of the week What’s your dream role – if you didn’t even have to leave your current … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #42 →