A field-note piece on why organisational transformation looks structurally different in Luxembourg, anchored in verified STATEC and ABBL/EY data on cross-border workers, multilingual workplaces, and overlapping financial regulation (DORA, AMLA, CRD VI, MiCA, EU AI Act).
Why swapping VUCA for BANI isn’t just a rebrand of the same idea, what each of Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear and Incomprehensible actually demands from a transformation practice, and why a non-linear method like the Root Map is a BANI-native response rather than a VUCA-era straight line.
Why McKinsey’s 30% transformation success rate hasn’t moved in fifteen years, read through Bridges’ distinction between change and transition, and anchored in a real (anonymised) mission where a reorganisation was announced overnight by memo with no transition built in.
Two people on the same site will give you two different answers about who evaluates, who recognises, who decides. That’s not a competence problem, it’s a structural one. Here’s what the diagnosis almost always reveals, and what actually fixes it.
Between Aristotle and William Bridges. What change is actually made of.
A personal take on what kind of change AI actually represents, after two years of watching the hype outpace what’s really happening on the ground. Argues AI is at least two entangled changes, a slower technical one and a faster, harder-to-see renegotiation of the psychological contract at work, unfolding alongside an equally structural climate mutation most organisations manage with a completely different team.
We observe five movements you keep returning to, in whatever order the situation actually demands.
Those are two of the most taught change management models, and they are both built the same way. You complete one stage, then move to the next, in order, and you are done with it once you have moved on.
Philosophie Magazine recently marked its twentieth anniversary, a milestone that, for me, landed closer to home than most publishing anniversaries do.
Philosophie Magazine recently marked its twentieth anniversary, a milestone that, for me, landed closer to home than most publishing anniversaries do.
