Journal Themes
What is Parsons’ AGIL Model?
Talcott Parsons’ work sought to answer a big question: “How do societies maintain stability and order over time?”
The very things that make a business excellent in operations make it fragile during change
Capacity often becomes the biggest friction force hampering change delivery - not lack of ambition, not lack of vision, not lack of support, not lack of skill, not lack of money.
Staring down reality - How resilience shows itself in strategy implementation
Diane Coutu’s Harvard Business Review article, How Resilience Works, reminds me that resilience, in people and in organisations, starts with the courage to see things as they are, not as we wish they were.