John Featherby

  Below are a series of reasons with questions you can ask your self to determine if B Corp could help. Contribute To The Greater Good Before we jump into the reasons why becoming a B Corp is good...

Surfacing Assumptions As leaders, we must first surface and address the hidden assumptions we hold about the nature of management and the capacity of “lower ranking” employees to deliver. Leaders o...

If we want freedom we must purchase it with accountability, responsibility, insecurity, vulnerability and, ultimately, a promise. It doesn’t come for free. Which is one reason why not everybody wan...

The idea of freedom sounds wonderful but, in reality, people are often hesitant to adopt it. Here’s why: The dominance of individualism Giving people more freedom only works if it is accompanied by...

Given Human Organisations require a much more bottom-up approach, where does that leave the Senior Leadership? There remains a place for Senior Leadership to articulate direction and boundaries. Bu...

Hierarchy isn’t inherently bad. The issue is that, whilst bringing (a form of) order, it can fuel human weakness, including the misuse of power, ego and pride. These, in turn, can drive petty polit...

21st Century Organisations, as ecosystems, function far more like communities than they do companies (as we know them). Large companies increasingly talk about the need to model themselves on commu...

The status quo pursues a set of organisational norms that pull an organisation in a different, if not the opposite, direction to where they should be going, including: Efficiency at the cost of ada...

Hierarchical organisations during the 20th Century were fabulously successful at delivering globally scaled “mass benefits”, from medical care to regulation. This success led to the default assumpt...

The 21st Century Organisation is a learning organisation: innovation isn’t something it does, it’s who it is. But the presence of innovation is not a natural progression; it needs deliberate pursui...