Benjamin Taylor
Benjamin Taylor
Indie status: 11 years
Previously: PwC, Capita, Adviser to Mayor in a London Borough
RedQuadrant
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Systems Practice
Collaborated On
Writings
2021
July
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #8 ·
- What is work? ·
- The Human Knot. ·
- CPORT task definition ·
- What pattern are you stuck in? Are you happy with it? ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #7 ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #6 ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #4 ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #5 ·
- My little freedom day poll: results ·
- ‘Honest, guv’nor’ — how to use change management for evil ·
- What does ‘freedom day’ mean to you? ·
- This week I spoke at #leanagileUK on ‘five core practices’ for effective organisations ·
- Cybernetics is not the banana. ·
- what could the role of government and public services look like in the 21st Century and beyond? ·
- Wouldn’t it be good if you could improve your changes of successful change? ·
- Essential practices for organisation — talk on 13 July ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #3 ·
- The critical role of procurement in public value outcomes ·
- Moving into turbulence, uncertainty, novelty, and ambiguity ·
- The power of names, part two— @antlerboy ·
June
- The power of names, part 1 — why RedQuadrant? ·
- #Ask me anything! ·
- In world of infinite overlapping possibility and multiple, irreconcilable differences, what does… ·
- What I learned from 100 intentional LinkedIn posts ·
- Making sense of systems change and systems leadership ·
- Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #2 ·
- Seeking comments on my new Revue newsletter ·
- A grid for better customer / citizen led transformation ·
- What’s your mission? How are you bringing it into the world? ·
- Technical vs adaptive problems ·
- Have you heard of the brown contract? ·
- Events coming up — please join me! ·
- What do we want for the days after? ·
- Which world do you live in? ·
- Complexity is not a paradigm shift ·
- Come and sample the RedQuadrant tool shed — free show and tell on 10 June ·
- Why do they say my country doesn’t exist? ·
- How can you quickly assess how you are doing as a leader? ·
- Ten principles for public service transformation ·
- What sort of posts do you want from me? ·
- What would you most like to hear from me about my approaches on June 10? ·
- How do you help good work thrive in the world and increase impact? ·
- Where do ideas come from, and who owns them? ·
- Being compassionate to ourselves turns out to be a powerful lever for change ·
- What do you do when you’re stuck in the middle? How’s that working out for you? ·
- Consider the oboe ·
- The universe is greebling. ·
- Quality Improvement — consider dangerous? ·
- I’m hiring! Be at the heart of RedQuadrant ·
- What idea changed the way you see the world? ·
- We are all consultants, advisers, coaches, change people — but only a select few enter the tool… ·
- Metaphors are both stages and cages for our thinking. ·
- #Recognition! It’s very nice, isn’t it? ·
- How do you feel when you realise how much you took after your parents? ·
- the seven per cent rule ·
- What I know about #systemsthinking ·
- Pristine shelfware to working in the swamps ·
- What do you reach for to get a quick overview of an organisation’s structure and key data? ·
- Do systems exist? ·
- There are multiple ways of looking at organisations. ·
- Most customer service performance measures are worse than doing nothing ·
- Three tribes are contesting for the #futureofwork. Which one will you join? ·
- Have you progressed in your career? ·
- What would you do to improve this organisation? ·
- We would all like a ‘neat and compleat’ way of making sense of the world, of leading, consulting… ·
- What does ‘service transformation’ look like? A challenge for you! ·
- Are you learning as effectively as a dolphin? ·
- New Normal ·
February
- What are your fundamental needs at work? And are they being met? ·
- The worst projects I’ve ever been on have been doomed to succeed ·
- Do public ‘services’ make things worse? Does help actually help? ·
- What would happen if you said what you really thought? ·
- What topics should I dig into in more depth? ·
- What would you most like me to write about on LinkedIn? ·
- What’s wrong the way we use organisational measures? ·
- This intriguing image contains two possibilities for organisations, and the people who spend their… ·
- This is very true, and has generated some quite good comments on LinkedIn (where this blog is… ·
- Why is a bridge and water such a good explanation of how people go wrong with business… ·
- What would you say if I told you customer intimacy was dangerous? ·
- The great big sh*t-shovelling machine ·
- Have you heard of ‘commissioning’? Here’s why it’s important in all our lives ·
- How can we change the world? Exactly — join us and we’ll see! ·
- There are only seven ways to make savings and improvements in service organisations ·
- There are two fundamental outlooks on life ·
- Are you a naive enthusiast, an oversimplifying populariser, a gooroo, or a curmudgeon? ·
- How often do things go wrong because of lack of clarity? ·
- The Campaign Against Consultancy — do you want to join? ·
- There are five core things which, if you make them your practice, are likely to lead to… ·
- Local public services in the UK face a ‘perfect’ storm — we need Adaptive Councils ·
- ‘the chick does not break the egg out of hatred for the shell — it does so out of a desire to walk… ·
- We’re all trying to make sense of things — in our own way and from where we are ·
- A practical approach to making decisions in complexity ·
- ‘How the heck do I make decisions in this chaos?’ ·
- You should never publish your values or behaviours if you want culture change ·
- I sabotaged the plan, and it was one of the best things I’ve done ·
- Who wants to become an organisational Jedi? ·
- Are you playing the real human game, or are you being seduced by the Dark Side of The Force? ·
- Are you fit for your job? Are you stretched? ·
- Organisational Jedi Knights have to confront themselves with love ·
- Are you trapped in a tractor beam of The Force? ·
- The Force in organisational life: how dominant/other cultural patterns create system fragility… ·
- The Dark Side of human responses — The Force in organisation, part VI ·
- A letter to the future from some little time after 2020 ·
- Most organisations are zombies. ·
- This is part 11 of my series on The Force in organisational life. The rest can be accessed here: ·
- Irreducible complexity: The Force in organisational life ·
- ‘wolves change rivers’ links ·
- Not 100# to your point, but this is a good nuanced take on ‘30-50 wild hogs’ and failures of… ·
- The Force in organisational life — the story so far ·
- - Here’s the complete set of articles on The Force in organisational life, so far. ·
- Organisational Jedi Knights have to confront themselves with love ·
- Debora, please see the twitter thread started by Sonja Blignaut posting this: https://twitter.com/so ·
- The Force in organisational life and becoming a Jedi — The Beginning ·
- Only Requisite Agility can save us now ·
- Who am I, and what do I want? @antlerboy reflects ·
- Why you need spoopy consulting and how to do it ·