The Categorical Invisibility Problem I have facilitated a couple of in-house workshops on neighbourhood health working and have had the opportunity of synthesising ideas from a wide range of brilliant colleagues. This has partially helped my thinking and turned what started as a practical question about how national organisations work at community scale into something…
Behavioural science reveals a costly blind spot at the heart of how organisations build strategic alliances Most organisations believe they choose partners strategically. In practice, many choose them emotionally, then retrofit the rationale. A shared history, a familiar face at a conference, a relationship that simply “feels right” are more decisive than most partnership leads…
More than half of strategic partnerships fail to meet expectations. McKinsey’s research shows the causes are structural, not interpersonal: unclear governance, absent coordination mechanisms, no environmental intelligence, and relationship management treated as optional rather than architectural. This article presents a relationship management framework grounded in the Viable System Model and biomimetic principles. A system whereby…
Most partnership failures are structural, not personal. Examining the five most common design flaws and how to build agreements that hold when relationships are tested using biomimicry. The Pattern Repeats By 2020, Canada’s Public Health Agency had funded 30 multisectoral partnerships designed to prevent chronic disease across diverse communities. Robust evaluations tracked partnership performance across…
Wealth in communities is not created by aid. It is created by leverage. A close look at how partnership architecture can shift capital from extraction to regeneration by creating a partnership blueprint and honing a narrative that attracts foreign direct investment. Finance follows speculation, and branding works for finance flows too. The Trillion-Dollar Demonstration Between…