Insights

Two notes. Not a magazine.

• Practice

  Social facilitation is broken — and box-checking is why

  When engagement is a compliance event, communities learn that talking changes nothing. The fix is a trail: who was heard, what was promised, what closed.

• Risk

  The cockroach theory: local structures adapt faster than your organogram

  Host communities reorganise around a project whether you map them or not. Ignore customary and ward structures and you will meet them at the gate.