A contribution to this years' Complexity and Management Conference 5-7th June 2026

Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious.

Or taking talk and identity seriously

Different approaches to researching organisational life

Local and global: personality structure and institutions

Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious.

Professional intimacy in a tradition of transmission

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Complexity and 'convivencia'.

Unsettling what's going on at work provokes ethical dilemmas

...and how novelty requires redundancy, not efficiency

From KPIs to group mindedness

How consumerism reduces qualities to quantities

On the importance of thinking without a bannister

The business of talk

On the idealisation of the future at the expense of the past

in praise of experiential groups

Prof Carolyn Pedwell gave an overview of her book Revolutionary Routines at the Complexity and Management Conference, 2025. You can watch her presentation here: In her talk she covered a number of …

On complexity.

Strategies to avoid organisational politics

It has never been more important to pay attention to what's going on between us

Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious.

I drove 2,000 miles with a French friend across my home country – and saw the endless nowhere land that is the crucible of Trumpism, says Guardian Europe correspondent Alexander Hurst

The Deep Dive · Episode

My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Transformative possibilities in the everyday – habit, affect and the unconscious. We are shaped by society, but at the same time we shape society in our continuous interactions with each other. Bet…

Most of the thinking I encounter aimed at helping organisations grapple with their problems has to do with maps and frameworks of a world…

Virtually everyone accepts that workplaces are complex, but there is little insight into how we might engage with complexity more skilfully. If complexity isn’t something that managers can control and...