Redesigning How Decisions Get Made In Enterprises, Communities and the Spaces Between
Scaffolding is never an event Why workshop decisions collapse, and what holds them in place. A room full of people agrees on prioritisation criteria. They build an ownership map. They drop two initiatives. They write entry criteria for new work. They leave with shared language, visible commitments, and a list of experiments to run in [ ]
Who can say yes, and does everyone know it? Why most prioritisation failures are ownership failures in disguise. Your team has prioritisation criteria. It has a planning rhythm. It might even have a Conflict Wall and a shared evidence base. And priorities still shift without warning, mid-cycle, with no visible decision trail. The criteria didn t [ ]
The Quiet Regression of Western Democracy Democratic regression rarely announces itself. It arrives dressed as necessity, and by the time we notice, the conversation has changed. I ve been off LinkedIn for a few weeks. Part of that was closing out a contract. But for a fortnight straddling June and July, it was something else. Sahar [ ]
The criterion you re already using (and why it s urgency) Why most prioritisation frameworks fail, and what to build instead. Ask a team how they prioritise and you ll get the polished answer: strategic alignment, expected impact, timing, customer value. Ask them again, more carefully, and insist they describe what actually happens rather than what should happen. [ ]
Paid Grassroots Internships 2026: 3 Teams, Anywhere in the World A ChangeCraft initiative, designed by Kubair Shirazee, in partnership with Peace Through Prosperity. In summer 2026, three teams anywhere in the world can apply for paid grassroots internships to run a community experiment using the Grassroots Playbook, with $2,350 distributed across selected teams. It s the [ ]
The wall where the hidden rules live What happens when you give a room three minutes of silent writing and a set of category headings. Every organisation has two sets of rules for prioritisation. The official rules live in planning documents, governance frameworks, and strategy decks. The real rules live in the habits, workarounds, and [ ]
What Your Team Knows About Prioritisation (but Has Never Seen Together) The case for making the invisible visible before you fix anything. You already know what s broken. So does everyone on your team. Ask anyone individually and they ll tell you: too many priorities running in parallel, work arriving mid-cycle without warning, prioritisation criteria that shift [ ]
Prioritisation is a scaffolding problem When a team tells you everything is a priority, the usual response is to fix the people. Run a values workshop. Coach assertiveness. Talk about courage, push-back, ownership. Send a memo. It almost never works. And the reason it almost never works is the diagnosis is wrong. Everything is a [ ]
The Decision System Your AI Strategy Is About to Expose Most AI strategy failures are not technology failures — they are AI decision making failures hiding in plain sight. I was in this meeting. Global FMCG. Regional HQ. ExCom quarterly review. Five in the room, three on screen. Agenda item six: AI-enabled commercial execution. The [ ]
AI Won t Fix Your Organisation. It Will Show You What s Broken. And that s the part nobody is advertising. The gap is almost always an AI organisational design problem — and it was visible long before the AI arrived. In 2012, my team built a robot. I was the vision. They built the thing. Not the [ ]