Monthly Archives: December 2025

The Post-Structural Organisation

Building out on the new work I shared yesterday, on the notion of the Meta-Tribal Organisation, I thoughts I’d share some further thinking in this space. Fundamentally it’s part of a broader conversation about scale: the relationship between features such … Continue reading

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The Meta Tribal Organisation

I’ve positioned the notion of the Socially Dynamic Organisation at the heart of my work: it’s the current organisational design principle I favour most strongly, and I’m considering a second edition of this book next year. So I’m a little … Continue reading

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Fragments – The Planetary

As I put the finishing touches to the new book, I am reminded how far it has come. Last summer I wrote the initial essay, ‘The Unreconciled Self: A Planetary Philosophy’. It was around ten thousand words long, and I … Continue reading

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Delusions of Culture

Our understanding of how the world works is partly held in our ability to view it through the conceptual frameworks that we construct. These are abstractions, not absolute truths, and hence can, at time, delude us. Some of these we … Continue reading

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Intersections

I’m working on a new illustration, showing the interrelationship between formal and social systems within our Organisations. It was going to be for the new book, but I realise that I already have two images incorporating arrows, so either one … Continue reading

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Social Connection

I was emptying out a box of toys at the weekend: ones from my own childhood that are coming down from the attic for a second round with my own children. At the bottom of one box I found three … Continue reading

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