The position of work in our lives is significant, so learning through work potentially makes a disproportionately large contribution to the growth and identity of the individual. Do we need a better approach to L&D at work?

The perfect culture promises unimaginable employee engagement, performance, and productivity benefits. However, the quest seems to have no end, and the longed-for benefits seem just as unattainable. What if our quest is based on a false assumption?

Reform, change and adaptation are sweeping the public and private sectors alike. We need a commonsense view of our organisations that doesn’t rely on the machine model.

Our organisations are much like the platypus, a collection of specialist adaptations.