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The article “ Overcoming pandemic fatigue: How to reenergize organizations for the long run ”  in typical McKinsey style is a good read, but have you noticed yet that over time how big consulting companies have framed you to think a certain way.  Like it or not you have accepted their “illustrative curves” and way of thinking. If they frame a story in a familiar way you are going to accept their tried and tested approach.  You have accepted that the old worked and was true so applying it again must make sense.   This saves brain energy and learning time and it is why we love heuristics.  We have outsourced thinking and just a ccept it without considering. However ,  this overly simplistic movement from one level to another level should be reconsidered in a wider systems approach where one can look at the order of the response (first, second, third and higher)  Below is a graph showing the different order of responses to an input stimulus to force a ch...

Exploring how the S-Curve can help us with leadership, strategy and decisions making in an age of emergence: (properties or behaviours which only emerge when the parts interact as part of an inclusive whole) History and context There is a special place in our business hearts and minds for the “S” curve or Sigmoid function , calling it by its proper maths name. The origin of the S curve goes back to the study of population growth by Pierre-François Verhulst c.1838. Verhulst was influenced by Thomas Malthus’ “An Essay on the Principle of Population” which showed that growth of a biological population is self-limiting by the finite amount of available resources. The logistic equation is also sometimes called the Verhulst-Pearl equation following its rediscovery in 1920. Alfred J. Lotka derived the equation again in 1925, calling it the law of population growth but he is better known for his predator: prey model .   In 1957 business strategists Joe Bohlen and George Beal publis...

The linkage between principles and rules is not clear because we have created so many words and variances in language that there is significant confusion. We are often confused about what we mean as we are very inconsistent in how we apply words and language, often to provide a benefit to ourselves or justify our belief. To unpack the relationships we need to look at definitions, but we have to accept that even definitions are inconsistent. Our conformational bias is going to fight us, as we want to believe what we already know, rather than expand our thinking. (building on orignal article with Kaliyia) Are we imagining principles or values?   Worth noting our principles are defined by our values. Much like ethics (group beliefs) and morals (personal beliefs) and how in a complex adaptive system my morals affect the group’s ethics and a group’s ethics changes my morals. Situational awareness and experience play a significant part in what you believe right now, and what the gr...