INDEPENDENT THINKING / BY JO BARRETT
The questions worth asking.
The Enterprise Agenda is an independent editorial publication exploring how organisations create value through strategy, operating models, performance, leadership, people, artificial intelligence and organisational design.
Written primarily for Boards, CEOs, founders, investors and senior executives, it examines the decisions, assumptions and connections that shape how businesses actually work.
A place to question conventional thinking, challenge comfortable assumptions and explore different perspectives. Serious questions, independent judgement and the occasional bit of mischief.
Everyone curious enough to question how organisations work is welcome.
02 / THE EDITORIAL COLLECTION
Ideas to sit with.
People & the Employee Promise
Are We Promising Employees More Than We Can Deliver?
Organisations promise extraordinary careers, endless opportunities and somewhere to belong. Yet what can an employer honestly promise when neither party knows how long the relationship will last? Perhaps the real measure of employment isn’t how long people stay, but whether the relationship was worth having.
Board Intelligence & Decision-Making
Does the Board Have Intelligence — or Just Information?
Every report can be accurate. Every indicator can be green. And the Board can still misunderstand the business. What happens when information obscures the very enterprise it is supposed to explain?
03 / HOW IT BEGAN
It started with a question. Then another.
After years spent working inside organisations, I found myself returning to the same observation: some of the most important questions were not necessarily the ones being asked.
Why do sensible strategies unravel in execution? Why do organisations measure so much and understand so little? Why do apparently good decisions sometimes produce entirely unintended consequences?
Those questions became articles. The articles became conversations. Eventually, they became The Enterprise Agenda: an independent place to explore ideas, challenge assumptions and look at familiar problems from unexpected angles.
The kaleidoscope seemed an appropriate illustration. Sometimes the pieces stay exactly where they are. It is the perspective that changes.
Occasionally, you may spot Casper, my miniature black-and-tan dachshund and unofficial Chief Design Officer. He has strong opinions about the artwork, although his approach to organisational accountability is questionable.