Posts in Inside the Work

I am back at my desk in Cape Town. The heater is on, and a fat lump of a cat is purring across my lap[…]

Personal resilience is the maths of load versus capacity. Use Valorie Burton’s model to understand stressors, resources and why depletion is data.

Business capacity planning is not about pushing harder. It is about finding hidden constraints before they become strain, burnout and failure.

A resilience early warning system helps you spot depletion before failure. Learn how D.O.S.E. reveals what is happening inside human capacity.

Most businesses track performance but miss warning signs. Organisational resilience depends on how you measure and maintain system health.

A reflection on resilience and trauma, and why effort isn’t enough. Exploring misalignment, hidden strain, and how meaning restores capacity.

Most leadership teams don’t fail from lack of effort, but from outdated behaviours. Learn reactive vs creative leadership and how it shapes resilience.

What Tokyo’s earthquake design can teach us about organisational resilience - and why many businesses aren’t built for constant disruption.

Change management fails when uncertainty is constant. Learn why 70% fail and how trained resilience builds adaptive capacity before disruption.

Designing for change isn’t prediction - it’s creating space to adapt. Why good plans fall apart, and how resilient organisations prepare.