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The Fractured Lens

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41 essays on the forces that shape how organisations work, by Rich Bennetts.

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The False Self at Work

For much of his working life Donald Winnicott kept a shiny metal spatula on the corner of a table in his clinic at Paddington Green Children's Hospital. A mother would bring in her baby, somewhere between about five months and a year old, and sit with the child on her knee at the edge of the table, where the spatula lay within reach.

All four forces12 November 202612 minute read

Negative Capability
All four forces10 November 202611 minute read
The Ladder of Inference
All four forces5 November 202611 minute read
Deskilling
All four forces3 November 202612 minute read
Participatory Action Research in Organisations
Dynamics, Meaning, Belonging29 October 202611 minute read
Organisational Trauma
Dynamics, Unknowing, Belonging27 October 202611 minute read
Toxic Positivity at Work
Belonging, Dynamics, Meaning22 October 202611 minute read
Schein's Levels of Culture
Meaning, Dynamics, Belonging20 October 202611 minute read
The Learning Organisation
Unknowing, Dynamics, Belonging15 October 202611 minute read
AI and the Future of Work
All four forces13 October 202611 minute read
Organisational Psychology
Meaning, Dynamics, Unknowing8 October 202611 minute read
Foucault and Power
Dynamics, Meaning, Belonging6 October 202611 minute read
Organisations as Complex Adaptive Systems
Unknowing, Dynamics, Meaning1 October 202611 minute read
Sensemaking
Unknowing, Meaning, Dynamics27 September 202611 minute read
The Alibi of Certainty
Unknowing, Dynamics2 November 20257 minute read
The Review: A Ritual of Impossible Honesty
Dynamics13 October 202513 minute read
The Mythology of Learning from Failure
Meaning2 October 20257 minute read
Michelle Fine
Dynamics, Meaning18 September 202515 minute read
The Authenticity Trap
Belonging1 September 20258 minute read
The Illusion of Psychological Safety
Belonging29 August 20257 minute read
The Coach and the Co-Author
Meaning21 August 20256 minute read
The Smooth Road to Nowhere
Dynamics21 August 20257 minute read
The Theorist’s Toolbox
Unknowing21 August 20258 minute read
The Algorithmic Shadow
Dynamics, Unknowing21 August 20258 minute read
The Quiet Hand
Dynamics21 August 20258 minute read
The Strategy Delusion
Dynamics, Unknowing21 August 202510 minute read
Irene on Leadership
Belonging15 April 20253 minute read
Embracing Continuous Change in the Workplace
Unknowing12 April 20257 minute read
Why Change Doesn’t Fail Because People Resist It
Dynamics, Meaning9 April 20256 minute read
Cynefin Through The Fractured Lens
Unknowing, Dynamics6 April 20253 minute read
William Bridges’ Transition Model
Unknowing, Meaning24 March 20256 minute read
How to Use The Fractured Lens in Practice
All four forces9 March 20255 minute read
Seeing Through The Fractured Lens
All four forces2 March 20255 minute read
The Seduction of Certainty
Unknowing1 March 20259 minute read
Power
Dynamics9 February 20256 minute read
Belonging
Belonging9 February 20256 minute read
Meaning
Meaning9 February 20255 minute read
Unknowing
Unknowing9 February 20255 minute read
The Fractured Lens and Culture
Meaning, Belonging9 February 20255 minute read
The Fractured Lens: A Sensemaking Tool
All four forces9 February 20254 minute read
Why “The Fractured Lens”?
All four forces9 February 20254 minute read