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What an Organisation Can Learn from an Ant Colony — and Where the Analogy Breaks

Every third transformation book of the last decade has invoked emergence. Almost none of them meant it.

A few years ago I watched a transformation programme get the strategy exactly right and the execution exactly wrong. The vision was sharp. The target architecture was defensible. The sequencing was logical. Senior leadership had agreed, aligned, cascaded, and committed. Eighteen months later the

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