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Mega amazing systems thinking practitioner apprenticeshipsThe RedQuadrant tool shedUnderlying purpose£70bn contract for Net Zero (not)Systems genealogyThe Visual Cliff and perceptual ecologyArtist as Cultural Shaman, Kendrick LamarPolice surveillance of prote…
Oh dear, another fortnightly episode - am I getting lazy? We shall see....Book now for me at the wonderful Australasian Change Days 2022 - on 'what are the costs of separating 'change management' from delivery of change?A lighter piece from me: are you a cat …
A two-week special as I was just too busy last week... and also short because I am very busy still... everything will be much quieter in two weeks' time (as always)...
Lots of events and lots of interesting stuff :-)
LAST week... [looks like I failed to push 'publish'!]need-to-demand and front/back office18 tips from 18 years in consultingevens coming up on systems change, the future of work and moresome exciting links from New LocalPurpose from 1943 and polycentric leade…
This week's newsletter, including my upcoming vents...
A heavy week, this week, so a shorter selection - lots of events coming up!
systems convening, systems thinking, and systems practiceA session for the systems convening community – June 13, 2022 12:30-1:30pm UK time (free)What light do systems thinking and practice shed on systems convening? What can they add?
First 'proper' newsletter in two weeks as I was extremely ill last weekend (48 hours in bed with a bad stomach, including hallucinatory fever dreams about problematic consultancy projects that turned out to be just Category Theory - but I wasn't really comple…
I'm running a systems thinking deep dive at this conference - join if you can!
I'm pleased to be facilitating a systems thinking session at the Carbon Capture Deep Dive event from the Systems Change Alliance.
A high entropy edition with a high amount of valuable signal... many thanks to Sin Lu Tan who kept these newsletters and my LinkedIn/blog/Medium postings much better organised for these last few weeks!
Dealing with double binds, a systems approach to identifying vulnerability, supporting systems changers, deutero-learning, reading for public service transformation, aligning the concept of ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to precedents in cybernetics,…
An absolutely overpacked bank holiday stream here, dive in if you will and thrash around. Apologies for banging on about ethics in a very boring way....Also cover songs, Dirty Dancing to the tune of Only Fools and Horses, Beluga babies, meta-rationality and m…
Mythopoesis and family systems, neurons in fungi and autopoiesis, food sustainability, microscopic tardigrades, the invention of hallways and sad mangy pumas, McKinsey and Seinfeld and using time wisely, erratic justice and rat-running motors, creation of aut…
I'm on leave (umm... 'working holiday') - so a special 'randomised' version this week. Your version is unique to you, randomly generated like the Subbuteo Rugby Scrum simulator (pictured) - so assume that all serendipities are perfectly arranged by the univer…
Government-funded systems thinking practitioner learning - and... more :-)
1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 42I have a great new gig, the buying of reputation and spread of corruption, rejection, giving advice, systems change, and a lot lot more...
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…
This week: * From bat suit crazy nipples to the number one best-selling management science book.* From online council meetings to enactivism* From the meta-rational workplace to the university set up by Jewish people interned on the Isle of Man* From the sad…