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"2024-01-05T14:36:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa648b9692e", "title": "Designing For Connection Rather Than Transaction", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/12/22/designing-for-connection-rather-than-transaction/", "published_at": "2023-12-22T11:55:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa6499ccc59", "title": "The Importance of Connectors", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/12/08/why-leaders-dont-spread-ideas/", "published_at": "2023-12-08T11:32:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64a3cb72a", "title": "We Should All Delete More Work", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/11/25/we-should-all-delete-more-work/", "published_at": "2023-11-25T14:50:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64b176d37", "title": "Efficiency Isn’t Always Effective", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/11/16/efficiency-isnt-always-effective/", "published_at": "2023-11-16T13:22:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64bb05976", "title": "How To Behave In A Legacy Organisation", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/11/06/how-to-behave-in-a-legacy-organisation/", "published_at": "2023-11-06T15:32:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64c367b28", "title": "The Inauthentic Authenticity of LinkedIn", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/10/24/the-inauthentic-authenticity-of-linkedin/", "published_at": "2023-10-24T07:55:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64d125467", "title": "The Abilene Paradox And The Dangers of Assuming People Agree With You", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/10/13/the-abilene-paradox-and-the-dangers-of-assuming-people-agree-with-you/", "published_at": "2023-10-13T13:01:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64d923053", "title": "The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usual", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/09/05/the-gravitational-pull-of-business-as-usual/", "published_at": "2023-09-05T09:12:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64e3da15b", "title": "Autonomy Only Happens By Design", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/08/05/autonomy-only-happens-by-design/", "published_at": "2023-08-05T16:35:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde2-539e-7312-add0-6fa64ee45086", "title": "Agile Isn’t Everything and Everything Isn’t Agile", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/07/28/agile-isnt-everything-and-everything-isnt-agile/", "published_at": "2023-07-28T11:20:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256b46a3e0", "title": "Disruption-Proof: How Entire Sectors Avoid Transformation", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/07/14/disruption-proof-how-entire-sectors-avoid-transformation/", "published_at": "2023-07-14T15:29:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256c363a0c", "title": "Community Is The Only Unit of Sustainable Change", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/06/16/community-is-the-only-unit-of-sustainable-change/", "published_at": "2023-06-16T06:37:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256d0df5a7", "title": "How Do You Change A System That Doesn’t Want To Change?", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/06/02/how-do-you-change-a-system-that-doesnt-want-to-change/", "published_at": "2023-06-02T09:03:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256da9a0ba", "title": "Technology Is Not Innovation.", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/05/23/technology-is-not-innovation/", "published_at": "2023-05-23T19:13:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256dff0c8d", "title": "Work Is Mostly Mundane. And That’s Not A Bad Thing", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/05/12/work-is-mostly-mundane-and-thats-not-a-bad-thing/", "published_at": "2023-05-12T18:00:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256e18c63f", "title": "Do You Really Need An Innovation Strategy?", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/04/22/do-you-really-need-an-innovation-strategy/", "published_at": "2023-04-22T09:53:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256e463880", "title": "Is The 15-Minute City A Bad Idea?", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/04/14/is-the-15-minute-city-a-bad-idea/", "published_at": "2023-04-14T09:59:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256f0265b7", "title": "The Case For An Organisational ‘Day Of Silence’", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/03/22/the-case-for-an-organisational-day-of-silence/", "published_at": "2023-03-22T04:17:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec256feef43b", "title": "Big Consultancy and The Rise of The Non-Expert ‘Experts’", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/03/10/big-consultancy-and-the-rise-of-the-non-expert-experts/", "published_at": "2023-03-10T14:57:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde4-ae24-72a8-96e1-ec25701f0ce2", "title": "Innovation Doesn’t Happen By Accident", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/03/03/innovation-doesnt-happen-by-accident/", "published_at": "2023-03-03T14:25:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3837-7381-bd9f-8766652febe0", "title": "The Creativity Productivity Paradox", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/02/24/the-creativity-productivity-paradox/", "published_at": "2023-02-24T12:24:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3837-7381-bd9f-876665bfb0ae", "title": "Analysis Paralysis and The Threat To Innovation", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2023/01/19/analysis-paralysis-and-the-threat-to-innovation/", "published_at": "2023-01-19T15:48:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3838-72a3-b894-bfa5d6f8ad25", "title": "Designing For Ambiguity", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2022/12/07/16333/", "published_at": "2022-12-07T07:23:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3838-72a3-b894-bfa5d7f87e89", "title": "Why Big Teams Keep Getting Bigger", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2022/11/29/why-big-teams-keep-getting-bigger/", "published_at": "2022-11-29T14:45:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3838-72a3-b894-bfa5d88727fa", "title": "What To Do When You’ve Become A Legacy Organisation", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2022/11/19/what-to-do-when-you-realise-youre-a-legacy-organisation/", "published_at": "2022-11-19T16:01:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3838-72a3-b894-bfa5d8bc8197", "title": "Turning Constraints Into Innovation Opportunities", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2022/11/12/turning-constraints-into-innovation-opportunities/", "published_at": "2022-11-12T17:35:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3838-72a3-b894-bfa5d9421520", "title": "The Unintended Consequence of Putting People in Boxes", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2022/10/15/the-unintended-consequence-of-putting-people-in-boxes/", "published_at": "2022-10-15T08:14:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3838-72a3-b894-bfa5da082c7b", "title": "Understanding The System Beats Recruiting People Every Time", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2022/10/08/understanding-your-system-beats-recruiting-people-every-time/", "published_at": "2022-10-08T11:04:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bde7-3838-72a3-b894-bfa5da671ca7", "title": "Few People Get Promoted For Asking Difficult Questions", "url": "https://paulitaylor.com/2022/09/30/few-people-get-promoted-for-asking-difficult-questions/", "published_at": "2022-09-30T08:36:24+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

The Architecture of Permission: Rewiring the DNA of Public Serviceoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Are big problems really more difficult to solve?original ↗
11 Sept 2026
The Cost Of Complaining Just Collapsedoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2026
Community Connection Isn’t An Optional Extraoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
You Can’t Pilot Your Way Out Of A System Problemoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
The Ratchet Effect: Why Bad Rules Tend To Stick Aroundoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2026
Positive Deviance Versus Deficit Fetishismoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2026
AI Is Doing The Paperwork Of Centralisation, Faster.original ↗
17 Jul 2026
Is Our ‘Finite Pool of Attention’ Sabotaging Strategic Thinking?original ↗
15 Jun 2026
The Paradox of Standardisationoriginal ↗
5 May 2026
Organisational Main Character Syndromeoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2026
The Existential Threat Of ‘Work About Work’original ↗
10 Apr 2026
The Overton Window: How Unthinkable Ideas Become The Normoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
How To Build A Bridge To A ‘Rogue Silo’ Teamoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2026
The Watery Tomato: Why Most Innovative Practice Doesn’t Scaleoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2026
Fixing The Foundations Vs Innovation Leapfroggingoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2026
Four Picture Diary. Puducherry: Community creativity, mythopoeia, and booze bureaucracyoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2026
Four Picture Diary: Digital Transformation, Airport Counselling and English Themed Pubsoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2026
Four Picture Diary: Agonda, Jugaad, and the innovation suspicion of drones.original ↗
18 Jan 2026
Picture Diary: Palolem, fish curry, roaming cows, and why would you wash your balls in a public toilet?original ↗
14 Jan 2026
Four Picture Diary: Monkeys and Place Naming Conventionsoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2026
Four a Day Picture Diary: Elephants and Amusing ATMsoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2026
Four a Day Picture Diary: Safari Bureaucracyoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2026
Four a Day Picture Diary: The Road To Ranthamboreoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2026
Four A Day Picture Diary – Rebootedoriginal ↗
2 Jan 2026

2025

Organisational Antibodies Reject Place-Based and Decentralised Approachesoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2025
Why Decentralised Place-Based Approaches Can Failoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2025
Why Don’t We Enable More Heretical Thinking At Work?original ↗
14 Nov 2025
Concentrate on relationships and metrics will improve. Concentrate on metrics and relationships will fail.original ↗
7 Nov 2025
Complaints Rise Because Our Organisations Are Designed To Generate Complaintsoriginal ↗
31 Oct 2025
The Collaboration Paradox: Why We Say We Love It, But Our Systems Fight Itoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2025
Are Small Companies Really Better At Innovation?original ↗
17 Oct 2025
Why We Must Pivot to Community Enablingoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2025
How Can We Create Systems Where Knowledge Becomes Contagious?original ↗
3 Oct 2025
Have we lost our ability to do big, ambitious things as communities?original ↗
26 Sept 2025
Our Obsession With League Tables, And The Performance Paradoxoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2025
How To (Re)Build An Innovation Laboriginal ↗
12 Sept 2025
Digital Transformation and Our Failure To Learn From Past Mistakesoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2025
The Way Out of The ‘Performance Myth’original ↗
22 Aug 2025
The Problem with a Narrow Focus on Efficiencyoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2025
Sectors Reimagined as Products, and the Move to Agile Placeoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2025
Transforming Public Services with Agile Principlesoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2025
The Missing Ingredient For Community-Led Innovation Is Permissionoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2025
Can Institutions Decline Like Civilisations?original ↗
27 May 2025
What I Got Wrong About Innovation and Designoriginal ↗
19 May 2025
The Small Challenge For Big Companiesoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2025
The Myth of Centralisationoriginal ↗
17 Feb 2025
Community Memory Outlasts Organisational Memoryoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2025
Avoiding Innovation Pantomime: Capability vs. Capacityoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2025
Our Productivity Problem Is Linked To Meaningless Measurementoriginal ↗
3 Jan 2025

2024

Reciprocity , The Social Contract, and Talking About Tomorrow Todayoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2024
Do We Need A Department of Effectiveness?original ↗
18 Nov 2024
The Anatomy of a Bad Ideaoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2024
The Batcave of Innovation: Disruptive Thinking in Healthcareoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2024
What Gets Measured Gets Gamedoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2024
The Desperate Need To Reorganise Our Resourcesoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2024
Place Based Working Upends Business As Usualoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2024
Moving from ‘Decided Upon’ to ‘Decided With’original ↗
23 Aug 2024
Imitation Breeds Mediocrityoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2024
Relationships aren’t very efficient, but efficiency isn’t always effectiveoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2024
Should Organisations Sleep On Their Problems?original ↗
28 Jun 2024
Combatting The Cobra Effect With Bottom-Up Planningoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2024
Institutional ‘Forgetting’ and The Failure of Corporate Memoryoriginal ↗
31 May 2024
Understanding Spreadability in Innovationoriginal ↗
17 May 2024
Net Zero and The Law of Horse Manureoriginal ↗
9 May 2024
LinkedIn Vs Twitter: Which Is Best?original ↗
1 Apr 2024
Techno-admin, Microtransactions and Designing For Humanityoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2024
The Law of Propinquity And The Work From Home Dilemmaoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2024
The Growing Bureaucratisation Of Lifeoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2024
Are You A Positive Deviant, A Negative Deviant, Or Just Plain Boring?original ↗
20 Jan 2024
Fix The System Problem, Not The People Problemoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2024

2023

Designing For Connection Rather Than Transactionoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2023
The Importance of Connectorsoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2023
We Should All Delete More Workoriginal ↗
25 Nov 2023
Efficiency Isn’t Always Effectiveoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2023
How To Behave In A Legacy Organisationoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2023
The Inauthentic Authenticity of LinkedInoriginal ↗
24 Oct 2023
The Abilene Paradox And The Dangers of Assuming People Agree With Youoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2023
The Gravitational Pull Of Business As Usualoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2023
Autonomy Only Happens By Designoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2023
Agile Isn’t Everything and Everything Isn’t Agileoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2023
Disruption-Proof: How Entire Sectors Avoid Transformationoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2023
Community Is The Only Unit of Sustainable Changeoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2023
How Do You Change A System That Doesn’t Want To Change?original ↗
2 Jun 2023
Technology Is Not Innovation.original ↗
23 May 2023
Work Is Mostly Mundane. And That’s Not A Bad Thingoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
Do You Really Need An Innovation Strategy?original ↗
22 Apr 2023
Is The 15-Minute City A Bad Idea?original ↗
14 Apr 2023
The Case For An Organisational ‘Day Of Silence’original ↗
22 Mar 2023
Big Consultancy and The Rise of The Non-Expert ‘Experts’original ↗
10 Mar 2023
Innovation Doesn’t Happen By Accidentoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2023
The Creativity Productivity Paradoxoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2023
Analysis Paralysis and The Threat To Innovationoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2023

2022

Designing For Ambiguityoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2022
Why Big Teams Keep Getting Biggeroriginal ↗
29 Nov 2022
What To Do When You’ve Become A Legacy Organisationoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2022
Turning Constraints Into Innovation Opportunitiesoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2022
The Unintended Consequence of Putting People in Boxesoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2022
Understanding The System Beats Recruiting People Every Timeoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2022
Few People Get Promoted For Asking Difficult Questionsoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2022
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