by Rob Malcolm | Apr 3, 2026 | Source Note
On Reflection Organisations rarely stop learning activities. Workshops continue. Reports are produced. Frameworks are updated. From the outside, the organisation appears active, engaged, and aligned. But something more subtle might happen. Learning shifts from a...
by Rob Malcolm | Apr 3, 2026 | Source Note
Many modern leadership artefacts attribute the “rules of critical thinking” to Socrates. While they highlight key concepts such as defining terms, challenging assumptions, and logical testing, they might suggest that Socrates promoted a formal checklist of...
by Rob Malcolm | Apr 2, 2026 | Source Note
In a world marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity, ancient wisdom can serve as a compass. Buddhist philosophy offers tools not to escape the storm, but to stand within it — calmly, consciously, and with purpose. Impermanence (Anicca) “All...
by Rob Malcolm | Apr 2, 2026 | Source Note
Ethical implications of AI use How AI amplifies ethical failure — and why learning design matters. Generative AI is not an ethical problem in itself. It is an amplifier of how organisations and individuals already learn. The ethical implications emerge from how...
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...