The CIRCA-CLEAR framework and Thriving in Turbulence didn’t emerge from a single insight. They developed across fifteen years of writing publicly about what was actually happening in transformation programmes — what was working, what wasn’t, and why the standard explanations kept missing the point.

The archive below is that development in full: over 200 posts from 2010 to 2025, covering the evolution from Agile practice to diagnostic recovery methodology. It’s not a clean linear journey. It’s the messy, iterative development of thinking in real conditions — which is exactly what the framework says transformation should look like.

New writing — post-publication thinking, pattern recognition from current engagements, and the development of Adaptation Debt — is published on Substack.

What the archive documents

The writing that became Thriving in Turbulence started long before the book did. The early posts worked through why Agile implementations were producing inconsistent results — the same methodology, applied by capable practitioners, producing radically different outcomes in different organisations. The diagnosis at the time was imprecise. Over time it sharpened.

The shift from “Agile” to “agility” — from methodology to organisational capability — developed through the archive. The observation that frameworks carry their conditions of origin came from watching the same frameworks succeed and fail in different contexts, not from a theoretical position. The CIRCA conditions emerged from pattern recognition across engagements documented in real time.

That development is visible in the archive because it was published as it happened. The thinking was tested publicly, challenged by practitioners, refined through application. The final framework in the book is cleaner than the early posts — but the early posts show the diagnostic work that produced the clarity.

Why it matters

Fifteen years of public thinking is unusual in this field. Most consulting methodology arrives fully formed, without a documented intellectual history. The archive provides exactly that — the record of how CIRCA-CLEAR developed, what evidence shaped it, what the framework was trying to solve when it was still being named.

For practitioners interested in the methodology, the archive is the extended working. For leaders doing due diligence, it’s evidence that the framework wasn’t invented for the book.