integrity matters, in all senses of the word. Look at things in the whole and spot the patterns. Are these ...

The North Atlantic Gannet is a seabird that mates for life. Each season they have one egg, one chick. The ...

The perspective someone uses when viewing the pandemic has a major influence on what they are prepared to act on, ...

Do you go with the flow or stand in its face? When the currents of opinion and action are too ...

For this reason I rejected the notion of a competence model of leadership. When head of a national leadership centre ...

For all of us, our first work with new systems can seem daunting. Our existing networks and knowledge may be ...

At its best, systems leadership seems to exhibit an almost magical sense of the possible. Where people are locked in ...

The reality is that leadership through large, complex and politically contested issues can be very tough on the people involved ...

(By John Atkinson) Type 'what is leadership?' into google and you get 461 million responses. Do the same for ‘what ...

An interesting but clearly wrong conclusion would be that if you eat a lot, you too can be an elite ...

Systems leadership has come to mean working beyond organisational boundaries to address issues of mutual concern. This raises questions that ...

The challenges that require you to work together are complex. You don’t ‘deliver’ a change in global quality standards and ...

Are you good enough to lead? Is there a problem in your organisation? Are you a senior person in that ...

When you consult to a system who is your client? How do you know if you are doing the right ...

A circus is a system of complex, beautiful chaos, but sometimes the chaos becomes messy. It’s easy as someone who ...

Fail fast fail often is the official new manta of change. We encourage failure whilst at the same time the ...

A wonderful article from Donella Meadows drawing on Jay Forrester pointing out the places to intervene in a system that ...

11 handy laws for system thinkers, these act as useful prompts when considering social problems. Most problems have their antecedents ...

(By Donella Meadows. Available from donellameadows.org ) The Dance 1. Get the beat.2. Listen to the wisdom of the system.3. Expose your ...

To the novice climber finding a way through the chaotic tumble of buttresses and gullies seems impossible. The lines seem ...

By John Atkinson One of the things you notice when you work with human systems is that things keep recurring ...