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20 May 2026

Reflection 5 – Change and Change Agents

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

Change, Strategy, Culture, and the Change Agent It has become a cliché to speak of the pace and degree of change in the 21st century – yet the observation is ancient. The philosopher Heraclitus (c. 540–480 BC) held that “on those … Continued

Reflection 5 – Change and Change Agents20 May 2026
Change, Strategy, Culture, and the Change Agent It has become a cliché to speak of the pace and degree of change in the 21st century – yet the observation is ancient. The philosopher Heraclitus (c. 540–480 BC) held that “on those … Continued
Reflection 4 – The Eternal Business Story14 May 2026
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
Reflection 3 – Categories and Groupings10 May 2026
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
Reflection 2: Models for Understanding:4 May 2026
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
Reflection 1: The Choice.30 April 2026
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?