by Rob Malcolm | May 31, 2026 | Subject Area
Why Trust Matters Trust is a fundamental to effective leadership. It is not a soft skill that a strong leader can consider as mere niceness and ignore. Authority alone will not inspire commitment, elicit discretionary effort, or encourage people to share their...
by Rob Malcolm | May 26, 2026 | Subject Area
Framing the Subject Area Most organisations still approach strategy and innovation using largely sequential processes that typically follow: analyse, decide, implement, control. Yet organisations do not operate as static machines or exist in stable and simple...
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 | 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...