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 Tools do not create capability by themselves. They create value when they are connected into a coherent cycle of understanding, exploration, choice, design, action, and learning. Used together, the tools help...
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...
by Rob Malcolm | Mar 30, 2026 | Source Note
Part of the Adaptive Capacity model → View full model Learning Domain How organisational learning actually forms (and fails) Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. It is the ongoing ability of an organisation to adapt its behaviour through shared...