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21 Sep 2026

Reflection 18 – Culture as System

by Jan | posted in: Blogs, Change, Culture, OD, Systems | 0

Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’ Peter Senge[i] It is often said that real understanding of a topic only … Continued

28 Aug 2026

Reflection 17 – The Past Runs Your Organisation

by Jan | posted in: Blogs, Change, Culture, Strategy, Systems | 0

Understanding where your workplace culture really comes from Organisational culture is one of those terms everyone uses, and no one defines quite the same way. At its simplest it is just “the way we do things around here.” That short … Continued

Reflection 18 – Culture as System21 September 2026
Systems thinking is a discipline for seeing wholes. It is a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than things, for seeing ‘patterns of change’ rather than static ‘snapshots.’ Peter Senge[i] It is often said that real understanding of a topic only … Continued
Reflection 17 – The Past Runs Your Organisation28 August 2026
Understanding where your workplace culture really comes from Organisational culture is one of those terms everyone uses, and no one defines quite the same way. At its simplest it is just “the way we do things around here.” That short … Continued
Reflection 16 – Triad of Change Management Systems6 August 2026
Total Quality Management, Business Process Re-engineering, and Learning Organisation. Most organisations facing problems reach for an intervention. Fewer ask which kind of intervention the situation demands. Even fewer have a conceptual framework that would allow them to answer that question. The three … Continued
Reflection 15 – The Deal You Never Signed27 July 2026
What Termites Reveal About the Social Contract of Culture A worker termite spends its entire life building a structure it will never own. It defends offspring it did not produce and, in most species, will never produce any of its … Continued
Reflection 14 – Levels of OD (Functional vs Strategic)21 July 2026
Departmental or Strategic Organisation Development. Introduction Organisation Development (OD) has, since its formalisation in the mid-twentieth century, carried a persistent ambiguity of scope. In its most familiar guise, OD is a practice — a set of planned, human-focused interventions (team-building, … Continued