Transduction - leading transformation - Issue #51
Benjamin P. Taylor
RedQuadrant | the Public Service Transformation Academy | systems | cybernetics | complexity / public | service | transformation business evolutionary | avid learner. Reframing for better outcomes. Connecting.
First ‘proper’ newsletter in two weeks as I was extremely ill last weekend (48 hours in bed with a bad stomach, including hallucinatory fever dreams about problematic consultancy projects that turned out to be just Category Theory - but I wasn’t really completely happy with that or confident - and now I will never know :-( )… and I shared my upcoming systems events instead.
(Note the Systems Change Alliance events have been postponed a month or so).
I also see an interesting connection now between my two most recent ‘big’ posts, below!
Content warning: US school shootings, Israeli forces shooting journalists, corrupt politicians, deontology.
sections
public | service | transformation
systems | complexity | cybernetics
tweets and tribulations
our own private hell
evil from all over the world
a much-needed interlude
brain relief
It’s… a lot. What do it all add up to? Why do I?
and - if you make it all the way to the end, the definition of consciousness and the meaning of life.
When I was at PwC, the practice I was in won a £139m project — and it was the beginning of the end for us. I got up early to write this, as usual, and cradled my coffee as I pored over my writing prompts. What would be a suitable follow-up to Monday’s very successful post on ‘the …
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systems change, convening, practice, leadership, sustainability, chat… SIX systems events coming up presented or facilitated by Benjamin Taylor It me! I haven’t presented or run that many public events recently, and suddenly they all come at once. Here are six in the next couple of months — with info and booking links: “Later in the bar”Mon 23 May …
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2yLike a good Venn diagram - employee structures are in reality more like this than separate boxes under hierarchies.