Foundations
First principles of organisational consultancy and the grain.
5 articles
The difference between strategy and operating reality
Strategy vs operating reality: a plan that assumes capability you don't have is a wish. How People and ops leaders read the gap…
Operating system vs operating model, with 3 real examples
An operating model is the slide. An operating system is what runs under pressure. See the gap in promotions, onboarding and…
The grain metaphor: reading your organisation
Every organisation has a grain: how work really moves. People and ops leaders who read it first are why some change sticks and…
Why most change programmes fail
Why change programmes fail is rarely a strategy problem. It is that the grain, how work actually flows, was never read first…
What is organisational consultancy?
Most consulting sells answers. Organisational consultancy reads how work runs and changes it without breaking what holds. What it…
Reading is one thing. Doing is another.
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