January 30, 2024
A Flower, a Bear and a Cross-Eyes walked into a classroom…
It seems they ran an engagement process but not a collaborative process designed to generate ownership of outcomes.
February 11, 2019
Bankers and the Path of Vulnerability
The story of Ken Henry and the Commission is a story about vulnerability and our powerful desire to minimise it.
January 25, 2019
Manual focus on collaborative capability
How your brain can be "rewired" by changing a long established practice- relevant in collaboration as much as…
November 6, 2018
A Dangerous Idea- Love your Enemy!
I was struck by her comment on the really dangerous ideas in our civil discourse- things like blinding certainty and…
October 30, 2018
Wine, Castles and Complexity
A trip to the Alsace delivers unexpected lessons on complexity
September 18, 2018
Two things that collaboration is NOT
As I listen to people learning to collaborate, some of their difficulties seem to emerge from their ideas about what…
September 7, 2018
What’s So Hard About Water?
The water sector is rich in expertise, yet to successfully tackle the dilemmas we must build our ‘collaborative…
August 17, 2018
Where Has All The Certainty Gone?
Every presentation I went to had something to say about change, about stepping “into the grey”, or “risk on……
July 31, 2018
Top Tips for Managing Complex Water systems
Managing water is tricky so I thought I’d share three things I’m learning about how to make progress with complex…
June 19, 2018
What Can The Fonze Teach Us About Managing Water?
Water experts are under pressure to be just that – experts - and for most of us that means knowing our work.
June 8, 2018
When the Problem is the Problem
Imagine if the water planning problem was defined as more of a dilemma: How do we ensure a healthy river supporting a…