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Beware: Systems have Delays
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences: We often expect system changes to produce visible results quickly, and when they do not, we can mistake delay for failure and intervene again too soon. The better response is not simply to wait, but to look for early signals that the conditions for the intended outcome…
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When the Problem Keeps Coming Back
Donella Meadows wrote that the behaviour of a system is largely shaped by its structure. That matters because when a problem keeps returning, our instinct is often to fix the person, tighten the process, introduce another rule or try harder. But recurrence is information. If different people, different interventions and different circumstances keep producing the…
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Misalignment isn’t obvious until it’s catastrophic.
Every so often, someone insists they’ve found Atlantis — a sunken city, a lost continent, a hidden civilization. The story just won’t die. Plato’s original tale, written around 360 BCE, wasn’t meant as history. It was a metaphor: a powerful civilization brought to ruin by arrogance, corruption, and disconnection from balance. Yet thousands of years…
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