Kevin Kruse’s recent Forbes piece declares VUCA dead. BANI is the new lens. He’s not wrong. Kruse articulates it sharply: VUCA assumed volatility had rhythm, uncertainty could be waited out, and complexity followed patterns. Those assumptions no longer hold. Today’s systems are brittle, anxiety is endemic, outcomes are nonlinear, and comprehensibility feels impossible. The diagnosis … Read more
When Faisal Hoque published Adapt Or Die: Your Business’s Only Options In An Evolving Economy in 2014, he laid out a timeless foundation for enterprise survival: resilience, innovation, agility, adaptability. At the time I was inspired to pen an article (which I’ve now archived). A decade later, those principles that I highlighted remain, but survival … Read more
In hundreds of organizations I’ve worked with over the past two decades, one pattern repeats itself: well-intentioned efforts to implement agility often fail—not because teams aren’t trying, but because the underlying problem is misdiagnosed. I’ve seen this both as a leader of initiatives and as an expert recovery practitioner, repeatedly drafted in to turn around … Read more
In 2007, David Snowden and Mary Boone published a groundbreaking article in Harvard Business Review titled “A Leader’s Framework for Decision Making.” It introduced the Cynefin framework to a wider audience—offering a way to categorise different types of problems and match them with the right decision-making approach. It was a timely gift. The world was … Read more
“From fear to flow: Rethinking the system that governs your speed” In my last post, I wrote about how fear of Agile, especially in a world shaped by AI and accelerating complexity, doesn’t protect the organization. It quietly makes it obsolete. But let’s assume you’re beyond that. You’re not stuck in fear, you’re asking deeper … Read more
“CIRCA isn’t about weathering the storm. It’s about learning to navigate in any weather the future throws at you.” In leadership circles, there’s often an unspoken belief:That resisting Agile, avoiding decentralisation, and clinging to control somehow keeps the business safe. But here’s the uncomfortable truth:That fear is costing you your future.…And in a world being … Read more