Friends reported he’d been talking about differentiation and integration again

Join the discussion on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7256950648267591680/ I was asked to speak at a mini-symposia of the International Systems Sciences Society – so no pressure, then! I talked about the positive and negative dynamics of differentiation and integration when people get organised together. Here are twelve points I think people might find interesting – what do … Continue reading Friends reported he’d been talking about differentiation and integration again →

Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #153

My weekly posts There isn’t really a competitive tender market in UK public service consultancy anymore. RedQuadrant is set up to compete in a fair fight for a wide range of public sector tenders. We get an enormous volume of tender emails, and we’re signed up to over 365 different tender portals. These days, the number … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #153 →

There isn’t really a competitive tender market in UK public service consultancy anymore.

Join the conversation on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_there-isnt-really-a-competitive-tender-market-activity-7254397638995767296-BVDj  How can we get back to an open competitive market when this ‘creep’ of reduced competition seems to have won? There isn’t really a competitive tender market in UK public service consultancy anymore. RedQuadrant is set up to compete in a fair fight for a wide range of public … Continue reading There isn’t really a competitive tender market in UK public service consultancy anymore. →

Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #152

My weekly posts Hair-on-fire catastrophes and pace layering breakdown In the light of our screens, we are consumed by a world aflame with hair-on-fire catastrophes, a whirlwind of urgent problems, a landslide of critical tipping points, a flood of spiralling crises. Each is an avoidable consequence of our collective choices. The frenetic urgency drags our … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #152 →

Hair-on-fire catastrophes and pace layering breakdown

Join the conversation on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_in-the-light-of-our-screens-we-are-consumed-activity-7251850397235953664-RqHD In the light of our screens, we are consumed by a world aflame with hair-on-fire catastrophes, a whirlwind of urgent problems, a landslide of critical tipping points, a flood of spiralling crises. Each is an avoidable consequence of our collective choices. The frenetic urgency drags our attention to the … Continue reading Hair-on-fire catastrophes and pace layering breakdown →

Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #151

My weekly posts ‘We’re running balls out’ — Why the existing order is hard to change. In 1788, James Watt, on a suggestion from Matthew Boulton, adapted a centrifugal governor — invented by Huygens to control millstones in 17th-century windmills — to control his steam engine. The engine spins a shaft. As speed increases, centrifugal … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #151 →

‘We’re running balls out’ — why the existing order is hard to change

Join the discussion on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_innovation-publicservices-systemsthinking-activity-7249318522399469568-_9FV ‘We’re running balls out’ — why the existing order is hard to change. In 1788, James Watt, on a suggestion from Matthew Boulton, adapted a centrifugal governor — invented by Huygens to control millstones in 17th-century windmills — to control his steam engine. The engine spins a shaft. As speed increases, centrifugal force pushes the … Continue reading ‘We’re running balls out’ — why the existing order is hard to change →

Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #150

My weekly posts How do you get into systems | complexity | cybernetics? There are a lot of answers to the question, many of them connecting with some kind of disjointing break from ‘normal’ ways of seeing and being. Anything from being bullied at school to being dyslexic. Being in an outsider group. Naively applying … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #150 →