Insights

Human ecosystems don’t change because someone designs a better solution. They change when the people inside them begin to see what they’re inside of and then  act from that shared understanding. These pieces explore what that actually takes: the kind of leadership, the kind of thinking, and the kind of patience that complex systems require.

Articles & Stories

The articles make the argument directly. The stories carry the same ideas through narrative and metaphor — because some things land better when you arrive at them sideways. Both are part of the same inquiry into how human systems change and what it means to lead from inside them.

Articles

The Trap of Reductive Thinking

The Trap of Reductive Thinking

Reductive thinking feels like good management. Cut what doesn’t justify its cost. Consolidate what overlaps. Prioritize what’s measurable. And yet the system keeps generating friction, the same problems keep returning, and something that was once vital is hollowing out.

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Fractional Design Leadership: a solution to the vicious cycles of product design.

Most software companies struggle to define a business strategy that matches what their customers are really looking for – but it doesn’t have to be that way.

It’s time to change our thinking, and our approach.

We’re thrilled to announce a new family of services designed to help you break through endless design cycles and shift to a culture of data-driven decision making to design products that keep your customers wanting more:
Fractional Design and Innovation Leadership.

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Stories

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Positive Turbulence Podcast

Welcome to the Positive Turbulence Podcast: Stories from the periphery. Here we journey to the edge to talk to turbulators about their experiences creating positive change. In sharing these stories, these perspectives on innovation, creativity, change and leadership, we hope to generate some positive turbulence for you.

Each episode explores the influence of positive turbulence on innovation. Turbulators illuminate critical moments of change and key insights.

For more episodes and to learn about positive turbulence, visit positiveturbulence.com