Reflections on business and life
Thoughts and ideas on business developed over time
From Hunting and Gathering to Strategic Management The basis of business – whether it is called that or not – has existed for thousands of years. Fundamentally, businesses still function along principles that would have been recognisable to our earliest … Continued
Science, Systems, and Change “If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts – physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on – remember that nature does not know it.” – Feynman, R. … Continued
From Parts to Purposeful Wholes. There is a deceptively simple model used in the development of training materials that carries a profound insight about the nature of learning. It is called the Whole-Parts-Whole (WPW) model. As the name suggests, it … Continued
Changing course and why managing with yesterday’s thinking produces tomorrow’s failures.
If up to 75% of organisational change initiatives fail — a figure that has been regularly used since the late 1900s — what makes you confident that the next one will be different?
