‘Resilient’ was the first word mentioned when we explored recently how you might need to be in order to work ...

To undertake such a journey is to soak into a world of deep awareness. Conscious thought and sub-conscious intuition interchanged ...

If the global business is to find a sustainable balance it must attend to the local as well as the ...

John Atkinson is a co-curator of Heart of the Art Frederick Winslow Taylor was a much misunderstood man. He is ...

Fritjof has been one of the key influencers in encouraging a shift from a Cartesian view of the world that ...

There is often confusion as to the term system thinking. For some it means improvement processes, maybe based in the ...

I was fortunate to be trained in leadership for a year at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Towards the end, ...

By John Atkinson. Living systems act to preserve their identity. If you perturb them they try to remove the source ...

Certain statements about problems are likely to be rendered false or meaningless if it can be shown that the problem ...

We are all familiar with cultural change programmes. Sadly most of them are more like ‘Culture Change Pogroms’. They ask ...

Whenever you try to reduce a complex dilemma to a binary issue you are wrong. The ‘Leave’ or ‘Remain’ question ...

Sometimes we think we've got it cracked, finally found the answer, discovered the insight, the key that unlocks everything. In ...

When we don’t consider people’s lives in context, in their entirety, we design policy that manifestly fails. People on health ...

By John Atkinson Peter Drucker is credited as saying that ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’. It is certainly manna from ...

what happens when your organisation is so evidently getting it wrong that people are suffering, that their work is becoming ...

Exploring using' clever' algorithms as a way of interacting with and even as mechanisms for distilling change from within. It's ...

Why are the results of science considered more reliable than those from other forms of human inquiry, like poetry or ...

The way that we have set about delivering this quality has led to an environment where improvements to processes and ...

The Ecological Systems theory states that human development is influenced by the different types of environmental systems. Formulated by famous ...

A family systems approach argues that in order to understand a family system we must look at the family as ...

Performance and training science has traditionally been deeply influenced by the mechanical conception of human beings. It conceives the organism ...

The five element theory is a way of taking a lot of information and organizing it in a way that ...

The significance of cognitive dissonance needs to be understood to rationalize the theory underlying social change processes. Social change in ...

The reason we don’t truly become Change Makers is that we don’t want to. We really want to preserve things ...

This book is about collective intelligence: the creativity and resourcefulness that a group or team can bring to a collaborative ...

How often is it that we design a strategy, or propose a policy, that we know is good, valuable and ...

I am in a bubble where time and the wider world have gone and all that matters is the synthesis ...

The NHS is alive but rather unwell. Much great work is being done and we remain the envy of many ...

Key questions every change maker should ask of themselves ...

Wherever you go, whatever culture you're in, some things remain the same. Thinking about culture, group dynamics and leadership ...

Viktor Frankl speaks about how to help people, including ourselves, reach the potential of our lives. That's not about material ...

Great places have soul. They aren't simply about great architecture, great infrastructure or great locations. There is a life to ...

(By John Atkinson) What must I do to change my organisation? Times are hard. The reality of 'delayering' is that ...

(By John Atkinson) I'm not usually a stickler for language. I like to find a way of getting things across that ...

(By John Atkinson) Below the surface - a deeper look at Lewin Kurt Lewin was one of the seminal thinkers ...

Gregory Bateson was one of the key thinkers in developing ways of seeing the world as a connected whole, challenging ...