by Philip Boxer PhD Why the interest in stratification? A colleague, Simon Western, referred me recently to Actor-Network Theory and the work of Bruno Latour in the context of a conversation about the behaviour of…
by Philip Boxer How do we engage, describe and work without boundaries? How do we move beyond the familiar BART (boundary, authority, role, task) view of systems? And what does it mean to take up…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD Over a period of three years, 1994 to 1997, I consulted to an organisation providing residential care for men and women with mental health disabilities. This was in the…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD The blog on Requisite Authority argues that Asymmetric Leadership becomes necessary when competing in the ‘red zone’ – the zone in which the enterprise must be dynamically responsive to…
by Philip Boxer The conditions for triple-loop learning require that the enterprise becomes edge-driven. This places it on dispersive ground. The identifications that need to be supported on dispersive ground are those involving triple-loop learning….
by Philip Boxer The blog on Requisite Authority introduces a diagnostic tool that examines the different possible forms of congruence between role and task, depending on how an enterprise defines its boundaries and its relationships…
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…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD A recent examination of the Leadership Qualities Framework, developed by the UK’s National Skills Academy, shows just how difficult it is to counteract the bias of North-South dominant assumptions…
by Philip Boxer BSc MBA PhD The following is the abstract to a paper accepted for presentation at the 13th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO) at Oxford…