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Provocations

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

- Simone Weil

In a world that grows increasingly interconnected yet interpersonally distant, corporate culture faces a unique set of challenges. For over a decade, Thinking Partners has helped develop leadership and foster cultures that support human flourishing. 


Our blog, Provocations, aims to move away from the pristine corporate exterior. Here, leadership practice and theoretical underpinnings merge to enable the exploration of the deep, nuanced questions of human behaviour and organisational systems.
 

Each month, we will interrogate a new theme through the work of eminent philosophers, psychologists, and management theorists.

 

Whether you're a CEOs, HR professional, coach or anyone fascinated by organisational dynamics, we invite you to join us as we pursue truth and clarity.

Sep 8

Qualitative Inquiry: The Texture of Organisational Culture

The noise colours everything. Looking around most boardrooms these days, we see the same questions come up - what direction should the company focus its energy? How can we know this is the right direction? The conversation circles and re-circles around finding a singular solution that will solve the problem. Surgical. Sterile. But, of course, this isn’t how anything really works in the world. The messiness of an organic being and the systems they create is a feature not a bu

Aug 14

The Truth is Trouble

This release investigates the anxiety behind the letting go through Simon Cavicchia and Maria Gilbert’s research on Relational Coaching, and Michael Carroll and Elisabeth Shaw’s insights into Ethical Maturity.

Jul 13

No Grand Plan

In this article, we push away from thinking of organisations as machines and, rather, as ecosystems with life force and as ongoing conversations.

Jun 9

An Introduction

Provocations is a recurring publication by Thinking Partners that combines leadership practice with philosophy, psychology, and management theory. Designed for CEOs, HR professionals, and coaches, it analyses the behavioural and systemic dynamics to help teams navigate today's work culture.

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