Source Notes

👉 The domains that shape how organisations actually learn, relate, act, and adapt.

These Source Notes sit within a broader body of work across three books:

• Adapt, Survive and Flourish — establishes the core model
• Lead, Transform and Navigate — brings it into practice
• Evolve: Patterns for Living Organisations — reveals the underlying patterns

Together, these works explore how organisations develop Adaptive Capacity — the ability to learn, adapt, and act effectively in a complex and changing environment.

Purpose – the anchor at the centre

• Purpose constrains interpretation and aligns action under uncertainty
• Shared vision aligns understanding across stakeholders
• The common good constrains action under uncertainty

With it, organisations can act coherently under uncertainty.

Purpose is expressed as a balanced commitment to Planet, People, and Prosperity—
not as competing priorities, but as a shared constraint on action.

Purpose sits at the centre of this model — orienting action, shaping judgement, and aligning the system as a whole.

 

Purpose as the Anchor for Organisational Sensemaking

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