Writing on systems nobody chose
Each essay takes one idea from the map and follows it into real organisations: what it looks like, why it happens, and what leaders can do about it.
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Resistance is information
Why friction is often the most honest feedback an organisation gets, and how to listen to it instead of managing it away.
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The answer to a bad scoreboard
Why what we measure shapes what we can imagine, and why a better scoreboard is never the fix.
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No one chose the result
Why organisations end up in places nobody would have chosen, and how to start choosing again.
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What we hand over is not our work
Why every tool that helps us also asks us for something, and how to decide what you’re not willing to give.
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The most powerful systems are the ones nobody chose
Why organisations lose their judgement without anyone deciding to, and what it takes to bring it back.