Performance management is a waterfall

Performance management rarely fails because the forms are wrong. More often, it fails because an organisation’s relationship with accountability is...

12 May, 2026

A tale of two border posts

Performance conversations often focus on behaviour and accountability, but overlook the systems, processes and conditions that make performance possible. This...

05 May, 2026

Performance management is boring… until it isn’t

Performance management may feel boring until review season arrives. This article explores why performance conversations should be a regular management...

21 April, 2026

Why Performance Conversations Feel So Hard (Even the Positive Ones)

There’s something that keeps coming up in workshops, across different teams, levels, and organisations. It’s not just that managers struggle...

14 April, 2026

Practical Management – Why Your Performance Conversations Aren’t Working

Our 2026 exploration of practical management continues. In January, we opened with management as a serious craft. In February, we explored...

02 April, 2026

Register now for our March 25th Conversation Café

Over the past few weeks, WorldsView Academy has been exploring managerial decision-making from several perspectives. From Herbert Simon’s foundational ideas...

24 March, 2026

Why Good Decision-Making Advice Often Fails in Different Organisations

Decision-making is not universal — it is shaped by technology, regulation, and workflow. At WorldsView Academy, our 2026 theme is guided...

18 March, 2026

Managers, Their AI, and Decision Making

Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape how managers prepare to make decisions. This article explores how organisational structure influences the...

10 March, 2026

A Brief History of Managerial Decision-Making

WorldsView Academy’s theme for 2026 is Practical Management. Across this year’s Conversation Café series, we are exploring management as more than...

03 March, 2026

Management and Organisational Design

Managers are not simply participants in organisational systems. Through everyday decisions about meetings, work allocation, communication, and accountability, they actively...

24 February, 2026