Join the discussion on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/antlerboy_anomie-three-tribes-and-the-future-of-work-activity-7259491149508145152-pcQj This is my 400th ‘intentional’ LinkedIn post. (You can see my messy list of the other 399 here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tt_4OBwvj-amux9zSU23hB87TeQna7TlJQkYt_D8EuY/edit?usp=sharing ) I started during the lockdown days of the pandemic and I’m going to use this to talk about what’s changed and what hasn’t changed — and the #futureofwork. Despite all the … Continue reading Anomie, three tribes, and the #futureofwork →

My weekly posts Friends reported he’d been talking about differentiation and integration again 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 … Continue reading Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #154 →

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 →

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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. →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →