Why Restructures Snap Back: The Rubber Band Effect and How to Make Change Hold
Restructures rarely fail on launch day. They fail six months later, as old habits reassert themselves inside the new boxes. Using the Wheel of Change and the Cooplands story, this blog explains the multi-level work that makes structural change hold.
VUCA, VUCA Prime or BANI? Why Resilience Has to Come Before the Acronym
Is BANI replacing VUCA? It is the question L&D professionals keep asking, and it is the second question, not the first. VUCA, VUCA Prime and BANI describe the weather; none of them builds the boat. Drawing on Gallup's 2026 data, new meta-analyses on leadership and coaching, and fresh UK research, Russell Harvey makes the case for building and role-modelling resilience first, so the frameworks have something to stand on.
The Real Reason Change Programmes Stall: What a Meta-Analysis of 5,651 Leaders Reveals
A 2026 meta-analysis of 5,651 leaders found leadership effectiveness in change is highly context-dependent — generic change leadership models consistently underperform against diagnosed, context-specific approaches.
The Missing Layer in Leadership Development: Why Individual Coaching Alone Won’t Move Your KPIs
Four converging bodies of evidence, from a 116-study systematic review to Gallup’s 2026 State of the Global Workplace report, tell L&D leaders the same thing: individual leadership capability is necessary but not sufficient. This article makes the evidence-based case for multi-level leadership development and shows, using the freshest and most expensive proof point yet, a 95% failure rate on enterprise AI investment, exactly where the next leadership budget needs to go.