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Engineer or Gardener? David Hurst on AI, the Ecocycle and the Rigidity Trap

July 28, 2026 Mark Blackwell, Arkaro Senior leaders in mature businesses may know something is wrong. Their organisation is efficient, profitable and increasingly unable to move. What they lack is a language for what to do about it. David Hurst … Continue reading →

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Making Sense of Innovation in an Uncertain World

In 2026, as AI reshapes management and volatility defines markets, innovation demands more than data or disruption – it’s about perceiving possibilities and acting on them amid chaos. Four concepts – sensemaking, predictive processing, affordances, and emergence – offer managers … Continue reading →

Posted in Change, General, Leadership, Strategy | Tagged action possibilities, affordances, analogical thinking, change, community, complex systems, context, contingency, creativity, ecological perspective, emergence, gaze heuristic, innovation, Karl Weick, leadership, LLM AI, necessity, Peter Drucker, predictive processing, rational choice, Recognition-primed Decision-making, sensemaking | Comments Off on Making Sense of Innovation in an Uncertain World