A way of seeing the forces that shape how organisations actually work. Essays and a free AI transition diagnostic by Rich Bennetts.
In the 1940s the Harwood Manufacturing Corporation made pyjamas at a plant in Marion, Virginia. Its head, Alfred Marrow, was a close friend of the psychologist Kurt Lewin, and under Lewin's influence the factory became a site for some of the first experiments in how people respond to being managed.
A contradiction pair from the diagnostic.
It looks at what AI is doing to the people in your organisation: who gains power, what nobody will admit they don’t know, what happens to professional identity, and who is being left outside. Its headline result is the gap between the official story and lived experience.
Free for individuals. Your answers never leave your browser.
The Fractured Lens is my practice. I hold a Masters in Psychology and draw on depth psychology, existential philosophy and organisational theory to look at what organisations would rather not see about themselves.
I work from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand.
The next essay when it is published. Nothing else.
