See This! Newsletter! More! Beautifully! At https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy power, responsibility, euphemisms, the amazing Workona, unsafe 'check in'?, wordcel advice sought, Independent Commission on Culture and Local Government, The Consequence Of All Learning: We Can No Longer See The Chicken, Transaction-Cost Utopias Reconsidered, The Curse of the Chatbot, wheels vs doors, Rejection Therapy, Castaneda, Everything You See … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #41 →

Where is the blue dot in your organisation? This lovely little exercise from Barry Oshry reveals and opens up a lot about how organisational systems work - and how management fails, and innovation and creativity are blocked. We start a session with a group by telling them that, under three of their chairs, there's a … Continue reading The blue dot and the terrible dance of power →

I got interested in this today because I saw a tweet quoting an old blog from Matt Webb: "Our ancient ancestors were so worried about bears, they didn’t even want to name them because they feared [the bears] might overhear and come after them. So they came up with this word – this is up in … Continue reading What’s your favourite management euphemism? →

For many years, a favourite exercise of our is what we call 'the Obolensky game' - because we learned it from Nick Obolensky and his book 'Complex Adaptive #Leadership'. It is in fact, I think, a classic of the #systemsthinking | #complexity | #cybernetics genre - various called 'the triangle game' and something like 'assassins and shields' - you can google Nick or me … Continue reading When is #selforganization… not? And does it matter? →

See it nicely at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy/issues/transduction-leading-transformation-issue-39-1048826/d67a8d3b-0a59-4b97-ba12-2016adf8a220This week:Why understanding that there are ‘five worlds’ in organisational systems can be so powerfulIncluding video of me presenting to sensemaking.rsWhy being in the wrong frame is so hilarious – and the implications for businessBasics of meta-rationalityWomen in systems thinking – speaker seriesSystems convening across boundaries with Collective Leadership ScotlandEvaluating government … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #39 →

It can unlock #innovation, #creativity, and improve #customerrelations and #productivity. Today I’m talking to sensemaking.rs about my ‘five worlds’ model. 1) In customer or citizen world, we live our lives and try to achieve our purposes 2) In service world, we try to deal with the complexity of all the customer demands (which never *quite* seem to fit our services - the … Continue reading What does seeing the different worlds that make up an organisation show you? →

The facilitrainer rainbow, failure to reverse engineer success, strategic commissioning, primary care, and systems | complexity | cybernetics… The opposite experiment this week - late and no time to add all the tweets, due to travel. So a condensed newsletter! Top phive of the week Do you know a trainer, facilitator, or consultant – and … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #38 →

In the 90s, I trained to be an FA coach (soccer/football)* I learned from the coaching and #management wisdom of the time, led by a Football Association coach/apparatchik called Charles Taylor. They'd done analysis of every game in the 1966 world cup - the first to be recorded - and discovered two critical things.The vast … Continue reading Have you seen data, ‘best practice’, benchmarking, or ‘learning’ applied in ways which block innovation? →