Large-Scale Organisations
🏭 Gender or racial bias in promotions
The developmental map for Large-scale Organisations is now complete. It shows how entrenched biases and resistance to innovation are upheld by unseen mental models—and how each stage offers different capacities to address or perpetuate them.
Belief: “They don’t quite fit the leadership mold.”
Assumption: “My vision is the only one. Failure means others didn’t try hard enough.”
Mental model work challenges internalized archetypes of “ideal” leadership.
Resistance to innovation
Story: “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.”
Self-discipline: Question assumptions of control and competence. Invite others into shared meaning and feedback loops.
Surfacing this allows space for agility and adaptation.
Systems Thinking Research & Leadership Development Institute (STRLDi) 