by Philip Boxer A Virtual Open Source Event (VOSE) aims to hold both sides of the dilemma identified in the previous blog asking what we can learn from going virtual. In the design below, the…
Category: action learning
by Philip Boxer We are seeing that securing effective testing for COVID-19 is not so easy. Of course there need to be enough tests manufactured that are effective. But there are also the questions of…
by Philip Boxer Digitalization is changing the competitive demands on every organization across all sectors, at different speeds and in different ways. The covid-19 pandemic is accelerating these changes, driving each organization towards becoming more…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD What organisation needs asymmetric and tripartite approaches to leadership? Why engage in triple-loop learning driven by dilemmas in sustaining relationships to individual clients’ demands? What makes action research using…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD What lies at the heart of asymmetric leadership, through which the North-South bias can be balanced off by the relentless pursuit of an East-West imperative? I believe the reflexive…
What’s it like where you are leading at the moment? Is the relationship between your organisation and its customers in balance, or are you having to work out how to handle your customers’ contexts in…
by Philip Boxer The leadership of learning from experience involves learning from direct experience of practice – what is sometimes called action learning. This approach depends on establishing a ‘transference to the work’ in the sense that…
by Philip Boxer How are we to know what constitutes an ‘unintentional’ error? I want to be able to identify ‘unintentional’ errors as errors of intent in order to be able to ask why a…
by Philip Boxer Consider the relationship between a client and a service supplier in which a problem is being presented. They can each ask “who knows who knows best” what to do about the problem,…
Consultants What then do we mean by ‘consultant’? In a recent conversation with Henry Mintzberg[1] he was talking about there being three different kinds of consultant: Birds, Gurus and Process consultants. His explanations of the…