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25
Apr
Friday Fun: How to Break Hiring Without Noticing

Friday Fun: How to Break Hiring Without Noticing

Nobody sets out to build a broken hiring system. If you recognise what follows, you are not observing the system from the outside. You are part of it.
5 min read
01
Apr
The Death of Expertise in the Age of Inflated Seniority

The Death of Expertise in the Age of Inflated Seniority

Depth feels thinner. Decisions feel softer. Systems drift more easily. The language of leadership is everywhere, but the substance of expertise becomes harder to find. Titles have scaled. Expertise has not.
5 min read
28
Jan
Good Intent Is Not a Delivery Mechanism

Good Intent Is Not a Delivery Mechanism

All organisations are full of good intent. Most failures do not start with negligence or apathy. They start with people trying to do the right thing. Leaders care. Teams want to deliver. Strategies are crafted with conviction. Language is precise. Purpose sounds clear.
4 min read
12
Nov
Platform 3.0: Building Leverage Networks, Not Just Factories

Platform 3.0: Building Leverage Networks, Not Just Factories

Platform 3.0 does not replace Platform 2.0. It builds upon it. The machinery of predictability, the safety of programmable delivery systems, and the clarity of metrics such as PI, TQS, and IMS remain essential. What changes is the scale and interaction
3 min read
05
Sep
Platform 2.0: Predictability as the Battle Horse

Platform 2.0: Predictability as the Battle Horse

In Platform 2.0, predictability becomes the battle horse, because it directly connects platform efficacy to stakeholder efficiency. A new composite measure captures it.
3 min read
20
Jun
Leverage or Collapse: Why Platform Failure Becomes Exponential at Scale

Leverage or Collapse: Why Platform Failure Becomes Exponential at Scale

6 min read
05
Jun
How The Fluid Org Model Facilitates Meaningful Reorgs

How The Fluid Org Model Facilitates Meaningful Reorgs

Most reorgs aim to fix dysfunction. Few address the system beneath. The Fluid Organisation model helps teams unlock momentum that persists after the shuffle ends.
2 min read
02
Jun
Measuring Turbulence in the Fluid Organisation with Org Re

Measuring Turbulence in the Fluid Organisation with Org Re

This article unpacks the concept of Org Re, how it works inside the Fluid Organisation, and why it matters as a diagnostic tool for engineering, platform, and product teams alike.
4 min read
29
May
Systems Thinking in the Fluid Organisation

Systems Thinking in the Fluid Organisation

This article maps concepts from systems thinking, especially those articulated by Donella Meadows, onto the architecture of the Fluid Organisation. The goal is not to admire the model but to sharpen it.
3 min read
28
May
How the Fluid Organisation Model Aligns Innovation, Reuse, and Scale

How the Fluid Organisation Model Aligns Innovation, Reuse, and Scale

Speed alone does not scale. Alignment alone does not create coherence. Organisations today suffer not from slowness, but from signal decay, duplicated logic, fragile reuse, and an inability to evolve without entropy. The Fluid Organisation was designed to solve exactly that.
5 min read