by Mark Harling | Jul 4, 2025 | Blog
The Case of the Unfriendly Slug: Why Your Organisational Map Might Be Holding You Back (And What to Do About It) In my last two posts, I shared how organisational transformation often fails because leaders are navigating with outdated, incomplete, or misleading maps,...
by Mark Harling | Jul 3, 2025 | Blog, UK
Most organisational change transformation efforts fail because leaders rely on outdated maps. I saw this firsthand when a pharmaceutical client proudly showed me volumes of compliance data, yet couldn’t explain why their multi-million dollar decisions kept going...
by Mark Harling | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog, UK
“Strategy” and “Alignment” sound like consultant-speak. But they’re not. They’re just names for very practical things. Strategy is simply thinking long-term about what you want to achieve, with a plan to get there. It’s not a daydream. It’s a destination with a...
by Mark Harling | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog
Change is hard, especially in organisations where culture, processes, and human dynamics collide. Over the years, I’ve guided companies through transformations, and one truth stands out: you can’t manage what you don’t understand. Here’s a quick overview of what I’ve...
by Mark Harling | Jun 30, 2025 | Blog
Do you ever feel like your organisation is constantly stuck on a hamster wheel of false choices? Centralised vs. Decentralised? Innovation vs. Stability? Short-term results vs. Long-term vision? People vs. Profit? We treat these as problems to solve by picking one...
by Mark Harling | Jun 23, 2025 | Blog
Over the past few months, I had the privilege of supporting a visionary tech company during a critical leadership transition. Unlike many organisations focused on replacing cogs, they recognised that filling a role was not about finding an identical spare part – it...
