Motivation intrinsic, engagement free

6 years ago

For centuries we have been devising new tools to coerce and cajole workers to work harder or work the way…

Article on bursting the efficiency bubble in advertising

6 years ago

Another day, another call for an effectiveness shift. This time Rory Sutherland calls for the efficiency bubble to be burst…

HBR article Rethinking Efficiency

6 years ago

An article by Roger L Martin in this month's Harvard Business Review challenges the notion of efficiency and highlights the…

Systems thinking in Lloyds Bank international

6 years ago

In this video Dan Stevens (Business Development Manager) at Lloyd’s Bank International discusses the use of the Vanguard Method of…

Professor Ray Ison: Transforming: systems, situations, ourselves?

6 years ago

This video shows Professor Ray Ison introducing core systems ideas at the Leverage Points conference (2019).

Stafford Beer: On Cybernetics and the Viable Systems Model (VSM)

6 years ago

Stafford Beer filmed at the University of Manchester in 1973. Cybernetics and the Viable Systems Model are tremendously important when…

Dave Snowden: The origins and evolutions of the Cynefin framework

6 years ago

In this video Dave Snowden introduces the Cynefin framework, designed to help leaders better understand the complexity of problem situations.

Systems Thinking, Systems Practice by Peter Checkland

6 years ago

Peter Checkland's Systems Thinking, Systems Practice (1981) is one of those seminal works that helped to move systems thinking out…

Ten signs improvement workshops may be harming your business and what to do about it

6 years ago

Long considered an organisational panacea, improvement workshops are a common feature in most services organisations. Managers view them as important…

Peter Senge: Introduction to organisational learning

6 years ago

Peter Senge's book The Fifth Sense: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990) is influential and well known. Here…