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Nov 5, 2025

Time. The Missing Dimension in Your System Maps

Sensing the system’s heartbeat before you try to change it

This wave pattern represents the rhythm of the system you need to understand to navigate it.

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Sep 28, 2025

4 Steps To Make Sense Of Complex Systems

Structure, Stakes, Story, And Scale.

We must have order: A good society rests on a firm foundation. A place for everyone and everyone in their place. Poster design: Heidi Brandt

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Sep 11, 2025

The Struggle To Write About Systems.

The attempt to dominate flow using logic

The picture shows a jumble of random letters that represents how difficult it is to use written language for expressing the complexity of systems.

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Jul 26, 2025

Why Your Data-Driven Strategy Is Making Everything Harder

How to rebalance analysis with systems thinking to break free from operational paralysis

Why Your Data-Driven Strategy Is Making Everything Harder

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Jul 15, 2025

Strategy For A Future That Doesn’t Exist.

Businesses Are Systems, And Systems Are Rebellious.

Strategy For A Future That Doesn’t Exist.

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Jul 5, 2025

The Leader’s Journey

What Business Leaders Can Learn From Fictional Characters

An action figure of Superman laying on the floor

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Jul 2, 2025

System Maps Are Energy Blind

The Cost of Keeping Organisations and Social Systems Alive

Waves of energy

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Jun 28, 2025

Strategy Through the System Glass

Why Business Leaders Need a New Lens for Managing Complexity

The intricate ceiling, composed of mirrors designed to appear broken, perfectly embodies the “system glass” concept.

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Jun 23, 2025

Voluntary vs Forced Change

How to move from where you are now to a place that you may not like or that doesn’t like you

A man looking up representing the uncertainty of finding a new place for him in the future

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Jun 20, 2025

Properties of system maps: Emotional texture and multiple allegiances.

Learnings from a systems mapping exercise with service designers.

Properties of system maps: Emotional texture and multiple allegiances.

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Systems Thinking practitioner. I want to dedicate this space to reflecting on what went wrong, what can be improved, and what needs further exploration.

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