Expert guidance on business transformation and change management. Avoid the consultant trap with collaborative approaches that build sustainable organisational capabilities.
Deborah Rowland on why our oughts, the implicit codes for how the world should be, act as bouncers on the door of truth, and why real change starts only when leaders face what actually is.
Most senior leaders in mature businesses know something is wrong. David Hurst gives them the language for it: the ecocycle, and why AI cannot help.
If the famous 70% change failure statistic is a myth, what should we focus on instead? Four pointers from Julie Hodges, Keith Driver, Dave Snowden and Deborah Rowland on what doing change better actually looks like, and why most change is partially absorbed rather than failed outright.
The 70% change failure rate is everywhere. When you go back to the source data, the numbers tell a very different story.
The "seventy per cent of change programmes fail" statistic has no evidence behind it. The man who created it retracted it in 1995. The business world kept quoting it anyway. This is the story of how a myth became received wisdom — and why that matters.
In his new book *Incorruptible*, Eric Ries exposes "financial gravity"—the structural force that pulls successful companies away from their core missions. Discover why traditional shareholder primacy fails, how global giants protect their purpose, and how leaders can build structural safeguards before success makes them a target for value extraction.
Two thirds of business leaders face imminent disruption, yet most are using AI as a forklift to move their thinking for them. Scott Anthony argues the right way is the hard way, and the muscle leaders need gets built through experience that feels more like play than punishment.
Linden Thorp argues that modern leadership has overinvested in the brilliant but limited mind, at the expense of the body, the breath, and the wider nervous system. A conversation on leadership presence, physiological safety, and three Monday-morning practices to bring the body back online.