The Decision-Making Studio Podcast

Ep. 243: Geoff Marlow - On "Future Fit" Organisational Cultures

Mar 21, 2025

01:31:00

Today, we delve into the world of organizations and what my guest calls a “future-fit” organisational culture. My guest is Geoff Marlow and he has over three decades of experience around the world helping organisations create these future-fit cultures.

That term caught my attention because around here, we're interested in the future and uncertainty. For part of his career, Geoff spent time on the leadership team of the Society for Organisational Learning, which included the legendary Dr. Peter Senge - a renowned or was a renowned management guru and Arie de Geus, a scenario thinker who was the head of Shell's strategic planning group. Geoff helps leaders understand why organisations fail or succeed. And we tackle all of that in this conversation. We get into Geoff's three aspects of a future-fit culture, which are sense-making, decision-making, and action-taking. We also talk about leadership, change, and so much more.

Show notes:

Geoff’s substack: https://geoffmarlow.substack.com/

Geoff on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreymarlow/

Peter Senge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Senge

The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge

Mike Jackson and Critical Systems Thinking

The Dance of Change by Peter Senge

Geoff’s “The Five Fatal Habits”

The Big Con by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

Intentional Revolutions by Nevis, Lancourt and Vassallo

Eric Weinstein’s DISC – “Distributed Idea Suppression Complex”

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