by Rob Malcolm | May 24, 2026 | Subject Area
Organisations do not fail merely because they lack information. They fail because they cannot correctly sense, interpret, internalise, and respond to feedback from reality. From an organisational ecology perspective, feedback is not merely reporting, communication, or...
by Rob Malcolm | May 24, 2026 | Subject Area
Framing Insight Many organisations assume that learning emerges automatically once information is exchanged. It does not. People can: view the same training video, attend the same meeting, sit in the same lecture, use the same systems, read the same reports, and still...
by Rob Malcolm | May 21, 2026 | Source Note
Most presentations of Theory U describe a leadership journey or staged transformation process. However, in practice, organisational learning rarely unfolds as a neat linear progression. Instead, awareness, dialogue, relationships, action, and perception continuously...
by Rob Malcolm | May 21, 2026 | Subject Area
The Illusion of Simplicity Let’s start with the narrative. 📖 In Adapt, Survive and Flourish, after an afternoon of drinking with his friends, Marko, a second-year university student, notices Judy, the founder of the Tuesday Night Survivors Club, sitting next to him at...
by Rob Malcolm | May 18, 2026 | Subject Area
Learning Before the Future Arrives Core Idea Scenario Planning is not about predicting the future. It is about improving organisational learning before consequences arrive. In uncertain, complex, disruptive, and rapidly changing technological or environmental...