Most companies still treat culture like branding and performance like a dashboard light. But an organization isn’t a machine. It’s a complex adaptive system: more like a living body than a factory floor. That’s how we designed the GoodCo Ecosystem: The Compass is your nervous system sensing, orienting, and guiding response The GROWTH Loop is your muscle bone enabling adaptive movement GPI is your vitals panel revealing stress, safety, and systemic health TRACE is your executive function linking intent to action over time You don’t need to replace your organization. You need to understand how it actually works.

🧵 Why the Big 5 Consulting Firms Keep Winning — Even When They Don’t Change a Thing 1/7 Everyone complains about the Big 5 consulting firms: @McKinsey @BCG @BainandCompany @Deloitte and @Accenture... ...and yet, companies keep hiring them. Not because they drive transformation. But because they reinforce the "right" patterns — for the people already in power. ⬇️

Most SAFe adoptions don’t fail because they’re misunderstood. They fail because they succeed at the wrong thing. They scale reporting. They preserve hierarchy. They rename the org chart. But they don’t change behavior. They don’t reduce org debt. They don’t shift the patterns. And still, people defend them passionately. Because SAFe doesn’t endure because it transforms. It endures because people can’t afford to admit it didn’t.

Pondering complexity and architecture this week. #complexitylounge

Eagles don’t fly with pigeons.

Exploring the future of work, a group of 40 mappers, 10 hours, many maps and perspectives created. End result, where to invest depends upon your purpose - benefiting society or making money.

The last straw for me … Dries Van Noten is retiring from fashion. #longlivetheantwerpsix

Sure wish there was such a thing as business-only flights.

Josh. Individuals working in the “scatter/gather” model will _always_ be less efficient. They form individual bottlenecks as people wait for them. They create unnecessary integration steps and a failed integration adds considerable dev time. Since they don’t have external expertise available as they work, they spend time looking stuff up and flailing around. They cannot benefit from the learning inherent in working collaboratively with people who have skills they don’t have. Their code requires an extra review step. Their tests are typically inadequate, so there’s an extra testing phase. I could go on. These issues can easily double or triple development costs. The question, then, is whether the company is willing to eat those additional costs. It’s a simple cost/benefit calculation. Sure, people can refuse to work collaboratively because they don’t feel comfortable with it. That’s equivalent to a carpenter refusing to use power tools because they don’t feel comfortable around them. Yes, they can get the work done, but there’s a cost. I should add that if there are “intense social interactions” in an Ensemble, you’re probably going about it wrong. You cannot work in an ensemble without psychological safety.

Fun with Dick and Jane movie … feels like my life right now 🤣

I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/7812612…

Today was an epic day for sports. #AFCON final then #SuperBowl

Haller scored with his toe. That was noice! #NGACIV #AFCON2024

Félicitations à la Côte d’Ivoire! #AFCON2024

Allez Côte d’Ivoire!!! #AFCON2024 #AFCONFinal

The book includes interviews & suggestions on Complexity from distinguished practitioners: @tiani_original, @CarolAnnMase, @agile_valerie, @JohnColemanIRL, @PapaChrisMatts, @sonjabl, @DanielMezick, Sunil Mundra. #BookLauch #Complexity #VUCA #SystemsThinking #Agility #Leadership

We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.