by Mark Harling | Jul 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
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by Mark Harling | Jul 14, 2025 | Blog, UK
Every thriving business evolves, but too often, its culture gets stuck in the past. As organisations scale, what worked at 20 employees becomes a liability at 200. Having advised scale-ups and corporates, I’ve seen how cultural misalignment silently erodes innovation,...
by Mark Harling | Jul 14, 2025 | Blog, UK
The Unseen Crisis: Why Your Startup's Culture Has a "Best Before Date" (And What To Do Before It Expires) For years, when I’ve mentioned “corporate culture” to management, I’ve often seen eyes glaze over. It felt abstract, intangible, perhaps even a...
by Mark Harling | Jul 13, 2025 | Blog, UK
I built a fun quiz on a Sunday… but not for the reasons you might think. No one asked me to.There was no urgent need, no external pressure.Just me, a quiet Sunday, a blank page… and a question: Could I turn my consulting work into an interactive experience—without...
by Mark Harling | Jul 11, 2025 | Blog
Rethinking vision implementation through culture, not just process In over two decades of transformation work, one pattern keeps repeating: an organisation spends significant time and energy crafting an ambitious vision, only to see it slowly evaporate. Initial...
by Mark Harling | Jul 9, 2025 | Blog
Many organisations struggle with problems that just won’t shift, despite clear plans, skilled teams, and good intentions. A transformation that looked great on paper goes nowhere. A process improvement initiative sparks passive resistance. A strategy is communicated...
by Mark Harling | Jul 7, 2025 | Blog
It’s a situation I often see when working with leadership teams inside well-intentioned organisations. They’ve recruited skilled professionals who are collaborative and well-aligned. But when it comes to solving complex problems or adapting to change, the organisation...
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It) In my last two posts, I shared how organisational transformation often fails because leaders are navigating with outdated, incomplete, or misleading maps,...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Most organisational change transformation efforts fail because leaders rely on outdated maps.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...
