I’m proud of RedQuadrant

I try to make these posts interesting, challenging, accessible. But today I'm just going to be proud of my company for a minute here. What's your big achievement at the moment? Mine is that we set up in public services consultancy in 2009, just as the good times turned into full-blown austerity. We survived that, … Continue reading I’m proud of RedQuadrant →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #11

Subscribe at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy An invitation to the RedQuadrant tool shedNew cohorts launching soon: my support and tool shed for your coaching / consulting / facilitationchosen-path.org Welcome to Australasian Change Days 2021Sarah Glenister and team have again put together an event which is both an outstanding conference and a great experience of being in community. It’s … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #11 →

There’s been a kerfuffle about ‘stage theory’. What do you think?

Can we really say that people progress through different levels of ability to deal with #complexity across their life? And that we can measure and identify what level people are at? Predict how they’ll develop? And select and promote people based on that? Or, as Nora Bateson said when she began the tango, will it … Continue reading There’s been a kerfuffle about ‘stage theory’. What do you think? →

Speaking gigs – what do you think?

Do you have tips how to get the best results out of them? My mission seems to be to spread the good-humoured word about systems | cybernetics | complexity. I wanted to change the world by transforming consultancy and transforming public services, and, well, in the words of Tesla about the 'self-driving' myth – ‘the … Continue reading Speaking gigs – what do you think? →

Why we need #metaconsulting

Have you ever seen #consultants deliver the right thing — in the wrong time and place? Go wrong because they were trying to impose their model, not adapt to circumstances? Many consultancies are one-trick ponies, and that kinda works. They do one thing and they do it well, giving people variants of the same approach. The less … Continue reading Why we need #metaconsulting →

Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #10

Sign up at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboyA reminder of last week’s headline, still time to download the new #systemscovening book from Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner and join us at a webinar:Register for the launch webinar on 2 September: https://bit.ly/SCBookLaunchDownload the book and join the community: https://bit.ly/SystemsConvening(And for more on my thinking on systems change and systems leadership, see here) Top phive … Continue reading Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #10 →

The world is grey – and it’s a lot more interesting that way.

What does the shift to the collective journey mean to you? I was raised on Star Wars. stay on target Almost literally; we went on exchange to the USA when I was five, and I saw the movie 14 times that year. I’m sure I could have recited the entire script for you well into … Continue reading The world is grey – and it’s a lot more interesting that way. →

Long live commissioning! But what shall we call it?

What do you call an approach that moves #publicservices from 'spending money on services to meet needs' to 'intervening and learning in the complex systems that actually shape our lives'? latest piece in the Municipal Journal The former sees 'services' as the whole universe, brought into being by our public service cash. The latter sees … Continue reading Long live commissioning! But what shall we call it? →

The Peter Block Community Exercise — connection, gifts, community: better than ‘a warmup’

How do you get people to connect to each other quickly? There are lots of ‘icebreakers’ and warmups, but something I come back to time and time again is this that is stolen — with encouragement — from Peter Block. The instructions are: Form groups of three. Sit facing in together, with your knees a maximum of nine inches apart. … Continue reading The Peter Block Community Exercise — connection, gifts, community: better than ‘a warmup’ →

getRevue newsletter – Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #9

Sign up at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/antlerboy The big thing I shared this week was the new #systemscovening book from Bev and Etienne Wenger-Trayner. I’m proud to have been involved in a sort of sounding board for the development of the book.Register for the launch webinar on 2 September: https://bit.ly/SCBookLaunchDownload the book and join the community: https://bit.ly/SystemsConveningIt is fascinating that … Continue reading getRevue newsletter – Transduction – leading transformation – Issue #9 →