Foundations
First principles of organisational consultancy and the grain.
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The difference between strategy and operating reality
Strategy vs operating reality: a plan that assumes capability you don't have is a wish, not a strategy. Here is how to read the…
Operating systems vs operating models
Operating system vs operating model: one is a slide you present, one is what runs when nobody is looking. The difference, and why…
The grain metaphor: reading your organisation
Every organisation has a grain: how work really moves. Reading your organisation before you change it is why some change sticks…
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 before the…
What is organisational consultancy?
Most consulting sells answers. Organisational consultancy reads how your company actually operates, then changes it without…
Reading is one thing. Doing is another.
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