How CIRCA-CLEAR Transforms Lean Six Sigma Into Human-Centered Excellence What if the most powerful improvement methodology in the world has been operating with one hand tied behind its back? For decades, Lean Six Sigma has dominated the organizational improvement landscape, delivering quantifiable results through its rigorous DMAIC methodology. Companies worldwide have achieved billions in savings … Read more
VUCA is dead. Long live BANI. Kevin Kruse’s recent Forbes piece declares the shift complete. Jamais Cascio’s BANI framework – Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, Incomprehensible – better captures the fractured reality leaders face. Kruse is right. VUCA assumed volatility had rhythm. It doesn’t anymore. But here’s what the VUCA-to-BANI conversation keeps missing: we’ve upgraded the weather … Read more
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
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