Perspectives on leadership, organisational transformation and systems change
Read Bramble’s inquiries into emerging trends affecting leadership and organisational transformation in a changing world. In these quarterly updates, we examine how leaders make sense of complexity, navigate competing realities and consciously evolve the systems they are a part of in the midst of intense social, geopolitical, technological and ecological change. These inquiries are written for senior leaders who want to think more clearly about the systems they are shaping – and being shaped by.
The Dissonance Dividend
When our assumptions wobble, we often rush to restore certainty. This essay explores the Dissonance Dividend – the unexpected value that can emerge when leaders learn to stay with discomfort rather than smooth it away.
The Case for Alternative Intelligence
What might happen if we let artificial intelligence (AI) become the dominant intelligence in organisations? Are we sleepwalking into letting other forms of intelligence atrophy at the exact moment our teams and organisations need them most?
In Praise of Leavership
And at a time of profound upheaval, more of us will find ourselves needing to restart. How might we make an art of these transitions, and what might change in the world if we did?
The Dreamer Drain
Dreamers are leaving large organisations, but given how important dreamer capabilities are to the vitality of teams and organisations, how do we create spaces, appreciation and access to these capabilities even if they can’t survive inside the organisation right now?