by Rob Malcolm | Apr 2, 2026 | Source Note
How Organisational Behaviour Undermines Learning and Adaptive Capacity Drift and Pattern: Making Ethical Failure Visible Sidney Dekker’s work on drift into failure shows how complex systems rarely break down due to a single mistake. Instead, failure develops...
by Rob Malcolm | Mar 31, 2026 | Source Note
Part of the Adaptive Capacity model → View full model Relational Domain Organisations do not learn — people in relationships do. Trust determines whether tacit knowledge is shared or withheld. Relationships are the medium through which learning, adaptation, and ethics...
by Rob Malcolm | Mar 31, 2026 | Source Note
Part of the Adaptive Capacity model → View full model Action Domain Where learning becomes real — and consequences cannot be avoided Action is the only place where organisations cannot pretend. Action is not execution — it is where meaning, capability, and ethics are...
by Rob Malcolm | Mar 30, 2026 | Source Note
Part of the Adaptive Capacity model → View full model Sensemaking Domain Sensemaking is not analysis — it is the ongoing interpretation of reality in interaction. Organisations do not perceive reality as a system.Reality is continually constructed through the...
by Rob Malcolm | Mar 30, 2026 | Source Note
Part of the Adaptive Capacity model → View full model Ethical Domain How ethical alignment shapes decision-making Ethics is not a statement of values. Ethics isn’t just about values. It is the pattern of decisions an organisation makes — especially under...