Socrates, Critical Thinking, and AI Living with questions in a time of fake news New Developments This topic touches every organisation, every leader, and every individual navigating the modern world. It provides a conceptual foundation that underpins ... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

How the CEO Became an “Entrepreneur” and Why It Matters to the Rest of the Organisation Introduction Walk into any airport bookshop, and you will find a shelf of business memoirs whose titles, taken together, describe a particular self-image: the ̷... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Laws of Nature, Their Relevance to People, Organisations, Systems, and Organisation Development.  In this reflection, we focus on a few laws of nature from the exact sciences. Some of these will surface again in later reflections. The application of na... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Levels of Considerations in Strategic Planning Introduction There is a model developed by mathematician Eduard Lucas with many names but often called the Tower of Hanoi. The model comprises three pegs and several discs of varying sizes, stacked in orde... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Millions or Billions, wasted or well spent? Millions – if not billions – of rands and dollars are spent annually on strategic planning sessions. Whether all of this represents genuine value or significant waste is a question worth asking. Consultants &... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Are we in a perfect storm? Open any news article, and it becomes clear that executive remuneration has become a contentious issue. To discuss this, we first need to step back and look at the broader environment in which organisations … Continued ... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Change, Strategy, Culture, and the Change Agent It has become a cliché to speak of the pace and degree of change in the 21st century – yet the observation is ancient. The philosopher Heraclitus (c. 540–480 BC) held that “on those … Continued The ... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

From Hunting and Gathering to Strategic Management The basis of business – whether it is called that or not – has existed for thousands of years. Fundamentally, businesses still function along principles that would have been recognisable to our earlies... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

Science, Systems, and Change “If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts – physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on – remember that nature does not know it.” – Feynman, R. … C... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.

From Parts to Purposeful Wholes. There is a deceptively simple model used in the development of training materials that carries a profound insight about the nature of learning. It is called the Whole-Parts-Whole (WPW) model. As the name suggests, it &#... Originally published on Blogs - van Rooyen. Read the original post.