Principles for managing in complexity

Written by Toby Lowe and Shaheen Warren (Centre for Public Impact) and Sam Sharp (Overseas…

How to manage complexity: four lessons for DFID’s new Secretary of State

Learning, Adapting and Lean Impact — 3 reflections, 18 months in

Development, like every other sector on the planet is grappling with the pace of change and increasingly volatile and uncertain operating contexts. As the kinds of questions we’re asking become increasingly complex…

Welcome to LearnAdapt’s blog!

Sharing and learning lessons on how to do adaptive management in practice

Managing uncertainty when your brain doesn’t like it

Four ways development practitioners can borrow from private sector adaptive approaches

Adaptive Bureaucracies: lessons from DFID to the world

How many times have you worked on something that you know is failing, or just isn’t going as well as we’d all have hoped, but haven’t had…

Physically distanced adaptive management

Opportunities and challenges for local leadership

The Long and Short of It: Responding to immediate needs while pursuing long-term goals

The Magic of Mindsets

In development and diplomacy, programmes and processes are set up with a view to improving the world.