by Rob Malcolm | Jun 11, 2026 | Subject Area
Introduction Organisations do not learn; people do. More precisely, communities of people are the ones that learn. In every organisation, industry, profession, and society, there are groups of individuals who build enough trust, share understanding, align on purpose,...
by Rob Malcolm | Jun 6, 2026 | Subject Area
Framing the Subject Area Most organisations allocate substantial resources to systems, processes, projects, and structures. However, far fewer focus on building a unified shared understanding of what the organisation does, the information it relies on, how...
by Rob Malcolm | Jun 1, 2026 | Subject Area
Introduction Many organisations believe learning happens in workshops, presentations, strategy sessions, planning exercises, and training programs. These activities may contribute to learning, but they are not where learning is ultimately established. Learning only...
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...