Thoughts + Reflections
Beyond the Licence: What It Really Means to Belong to a Place
As we begin to reconcile our critical reliance and entanglement with nature, we see thinking start to progress from just sustaining to regenerating - net positive, if you will. In the world of social impact and community engagement, the concept of ‘social licence to operate’ has also started to show its age. We explore the regenerative concept of social value creation in this post.
When the Heart Erodes From the Sector
As the pressures of every day life continue to grow for individuals and service providers alike, what is really at stake when we only apply the ‘head’ without the ‘heart’?
Embracing Organisational Mortality
In a world hyper-focused on growth, how do we develop our collective EQ for organisational mortality and harness it into intentional design that generates surprising outcomes?
It’s a wonderful time of year, for strategy
It’s generally around this time of year when I start to think about strategy and annual planning cycles. In this post we explore some of the common (but less talked about) pitfalls in annual planning cycles and our top tips for optimising your upcoming strategy sessions.
Beyond Control: How to Cultivate Integrated, Adaptive Organisations (Part 2)
How values-guided autonomy replaces command-and-control in adaptive organisations
In our last post, we explored how control-based organisations can inadvertently create the conditions for their failure through rigid structures and a lack of trust and autonomy in the people who are best equipped to make decisions, at the right time and place.