The Complexity Companion
Dr Isabella AllanA Tuesday Fortnightly Signal - practical sense-making for complex times. The Complexity Companion offers thoughtful questions and grounded ideas to help leaders make sense of complexity, steady themselves in uncertainty, and move forward with confidence.
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So ... Who’s Actually With You?
Six episodes ago I asked a simple question. Who in our stakeholder ecosystem do we think is with us?
It turns out that question is harder to answer than most leaders expect.
We may have information that we pop into board papers to brief s...
What we can learn from stakeholders who are not allies?
Some stakeholders may not be in our corner.
In some instances that might be ok. But if that stakeholder is crucial to revenue generation, regulatory oversight or just plain the biggest stakeholder we have, then it’s a precarious place to b...
Allies, Sentinels and the Ones that Got Away
I appreciated the quote that Ann Sherry AO, a leading executive here in Australia shared recently:
“It is a false dichotomy between shareholders and stakeholders. It’s not an “either/or”, it’s an ‘and’. If shareholder primacy really is you...
The Stakeholder You Haven’t Met Yet
Aubrey Mendelow gave us something useful in 1981. A way to put stakeholders on a single page and have a conversation about them in a meeting. Power on one axis and Dynamism on the other. Simple enough to draw on a whiteboard.
Gerry Johnson...
Why Agreement Isn't the Same as Alignment
Agreement means people share the same view. Alignment means people are committed to the same direction, even when they don’t agree on everything that led there.
That distinction matters more than it sounds. A leadership team can disagree a...
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I help leaders make sense of complexity, steady themselves in uncertainty, and take practical action in a changing world. This newsletter shares clear signals, thoughtful questions, and workable ideas for navigating what’s next, today.
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