The Fractured Lens Blog | Systems Thinking, Leadership & Organisational Insight

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Seeing the World Differently

The Fractured Lens is not about giving you answers. It’s about exposing the hidden forces shaping what you believe to be true.

Every system, every decision, every cultural norm is constructed, held together by meaning, belonging, power, and the limits of what we think we know. This thinking space is where we interrogate those forces.

Where we explore why the world is the way it is, and how we might see it differently.

If you’re looking for certainty, you won’t find it here. But if you’re willing to question, unlearn, and step into complexity, you’re in the right place.

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Michelle Fine: Through the Fractured Lens, Co-Creation, Power, and the Politics of Knowledge

The Authenticity Trap How Being Your Whole Self Became Another Form of Workplace Trauma

The Authenticity Trap: How "Being Your Whole Self" Became Another Form of Workplace Trauma

The Illusion of Psychological Safety When Belonging Becomes Performance

The Illusion of Psychological Safety: When Belonging Becomes Performance

The Coach and the Co-Author: Why Your Action Plan Is a Trap

The Coach and the Co-Author

The Smooth Road to Nowhere Why a Hunger for Friction is the Most Vital Leadership Trait

The Smooth Road to Nowhere

The Theorist’s Toolbox Debunking the Myth of “Practical” Leadership

The Theorist’s Toolbox

The Algorithmic Shadow AI and the Unravelling of a Meaningless World of Work

The Algorithmic Shadow

The Quiet Hand Why Heroic Leadership Fails and How Co-Creation Unlocks True Potential

The Quiet Hand: Why Heroic Leadership Fails

The Strategy Delusion Deconstructing Organisational Failure Through the D.U.M.B. Lens

The Strategy Delusion: Deconstructing Organisational Failure Through the D.U.M.B. Lens

Irene on Leadership

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Embracing Continuous Change in the Workplace

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Why Change Doesn’t Fail Because People Resist It

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Cynefin Through The Fractured Lens: Rethinking Complexity

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William Bridges' Transition Model

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How to Use The Fractured Lens in Practice

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Seeing Through The Fractured Lens: How the Four Forces Interconnect

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