On complexity vs. complication
Complicated problems can be solved. Complex ones must be understood and lived with. Most leadership training teaches people to solve. Very little prepares them to respond.
Notes
Fragments, reading and influences that shape how I think.
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn
Not only about science, but about how ways of seeing collapse and reform. The moments between paradigms — when nothing quite holds — are where the most important thinking happens.
Movement and condition
Some things change. Some things hold. Most of what matters exists in the tension between the two.
On the word 'stakeholder'
We use it to mean everyone, which means it means no one. When I hear 'stakeholder engagement' in a boardroom, I now ask: who specifically? And who is missing from this room?
A sentence from Ursula Le Guin
'We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.' I keep this on my desk. Not as ideology, but as a reminder that permanence is always an illusion.