Fail fast or zero defects?

The North Atlantic Gannet is a seabird that mates for life. Each season they have one egg, one chick. The chick takes 4-5 years to reach maturity. It’s a zero defect policy. The energy involved

Caught in our stories

If you want a new strategy, you need a new story. So it’s worth pausing, taking time to uncover how you really came to be here. We rarely separate fact from fiction in our own

The 3D World

If we are to work with this most fundamental property of a living system then we learn about it through a process of intuition not deduction. So we can disrupt systems as experiments, but the

3 Q’s for Leaders

(By John Atkinson) Times are hard. The reality of 'delayering' is that there are less people around, particularly less senior people, who can help us change our organisations for the future. As they have left