I’ve been developing an flexuous approach to understanding strategy for several decades now. A part of that approach has involved the whole question of niche construction, trophic cascades and more importantly dominant or apex predator theory. At the moment it is a series of scattered posts, two of which I have referenced here, that need to […]
Picking up on my theme of yesterday I was reminded of a scene from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. In the central chapter ‘Mr Toad’, the Badger aided by the Mole and Ratty has decided to take Toad in hand. The wrecking motorcars and generally failing to live up to the normal […]
Yesterday I argued that the confusion of managerialism with management was in effect a modern form of witch trail. Things you don’t like, but don’t understand can be blamed on someone, or something more easily than facing up to the need for investigation, discovery or personal change. Thinking about that on the plane to Washington […]
I had a long drive from Hull to the Arms Park today to watch the Cardiff Blues beat Ulster and dominate the Scrum for the first time in many years. Then home with the prospect of getting up early tomorrow in time to check into accommodation in Bangor then take a train to Milton Keyes […]
A few things came together this morning which sent me scurrying to find a half remembered text from the Letters of St Peter. Firstly a tweet from Euan Semple took me to a blog post from Mahmoud Al-Qudsi picking up on the way in which Google takes you to locations it wants you to visit […]
One of the things that I could have added to my earlier post on CfAC plans What’s it all about was a desire to rethink research in a complex social system. I was reminded of this when I got home tonight and my wife mentioned she has joined an experiment where you download an app […]
When does evidence based policy become policy based evidence? These days it would appear to be when a hypothesis held for ideological reasons needs to be proven. There are many ways to do this which are a little less blatant than the cartoon but have the same effect. One of the most obvious, given the […]
In yesterday’s post I said that I would look at the role of a leader in initiating and making change. I also indicated that I wanted to do that after reflecting a little on Obama’s State of the Union speech. Interestingly that speech evokes Kennedy’s big vision moon landing with its commitment to a cure […]
My Just leave it alone post of yesterday argued for a less control and against an excessive focus on hygiene for children. But in the final paragraph I moved from the family to the organisation calling for a little more realism and in particular to let cultural and issues sort themselves out of time. That […]
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