all the parties

‘If you do not include everyone who needs to be included at the beginning, you will have to start again when they join in’. This is one of the truisms of intimate innovation – you cannot learn together through shared experience if you are not involved. And there is such a tendency in complex settings to think that success is…

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a year in a day

In our experience it is not uncommon for us to meet – say in various combinations of 6 or 8 of us – every 2 weeks or so to try and make progress on some really important issue. The issue remains urgent – we all agree on this. But attendance is inconsistent, and we all have other, pressing concerns. We…

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