culture change

A pink post-it note on the last page of The Tiger Who Came For tea book, that reads “Denouement, We return to the world forever changed”.

Reading 10 (October 2025)

October 26, 2025March 16, 2026
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This week’s 12 links: My time to read: 1 hour Image credit: Sam Villis on… Read More »Reading 10 (October 2025)

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About salmons and whooping cranes

July 28, 2019August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) Somewhere along my biologist training or my subsequent cross-disciplinary meanderings, I… Read More »About salmons and whooping cranes

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On movement building

July 22, 2019August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) It’s an asymmetrical game, with tons of behavioral research working against… Read More »On movement building

A vinyl sign looking like a street sign of a red circle around a silhouette walking, has a sticker saying "TRUST" pasted over the silhouette's head.

Trust enables magic at work

July 11, 2019August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) Krulak’s Law states that the future of an organization is in… Read More »Trust enables magic at work

Photo of part of the page of a book, which reads: I tend, however, to agree with Dixon (2000). One myth, observes Dixon, is that (starts quote): [T]he exchange of knowledge happens only in organizations that have a noncompetitive or a collaborative culture. It follows that the first thing you have to do is fix the culture and then get people to share. But I have found that it's the other way around. If people begin sharing ideas about issues they see as really important, the sharing itself creates a learning culture. I have, of course, inserted an important caveat in that sentence: "about issues they see as really important."

Sharing ideas creates a learning culture

July 10, 2019August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) Fix the culture in order to get people to share…? Not… Read More »Sharing ideas creates a learning culture

Photo from part of the page of a book: Businesses as If They Had Souls In "Relationships: The New Bottom Line in Business", the first chapter of their book 'The Soul At Work', Lewin and Regine (2000) talk about complexity science: "This new science, we found in our work, leads to a new theory of business that places people and relationships - how people interact with each other, the kinds of relationships they form - into dramatic relief. In a linear world, things may exist independently of each other, and when they interact, they do so in simple, predictable ways. In a nonlinear, dynamic world, everything exists only in relationship to everything else, and the interactions among agents in the system lead to complex, unpredictable outcomes. In this world, interactions, or relationships, among its agents are the organizing principle" (pp. 18-19).

Everything exists only in relation to everything else

July 8, 2019August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) Relationships are the organising principle. Reading Michael Fullan — Leading in a Culture… Read More »Everything exists only in relation to everything else

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Co-production in public services: a complex journey of change

July 2, 2017August 31, 2024
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(Originally published on Medium.) “Co-production is an asset-based approach to public services which enables citizens… Read More »Co-production in public services: a complex journey of change