Published writing
Articles, chapters, and the occasional older curiosity.
Open →Public work library
A working library
Public writing, talks, tools, models, recordings, and reference material from my work in systems practice and public services.
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Use the route that best fits what you are looking for.
Preprints and working papers
Substantial work made available before or outside formal publication.
Open →Talks, teaching, and workshops
Public talks, workshops, and presentation slides.
Open →RedQuadrant and PSTA reference
Selected organisational methods, reports, and historical reference documents.
Open →Search everything
One search across this library, Chosen Path, and the Systems Community of Inquiry.
Open →Search Chosen Path
A keyword catalogue of the essays and fragments on chosen-path.org.
Open →Search the Systems Community of Inquiry
A parallel catalogue of public posts on SysCoi.
Open →Search this library
Search the curated papers, talks, podcasts, videos, tools, models, and reference material.
Open →Browse by form
Writing, recordings, visual work, reports, and communities.
Open →Recurring themes
Ideas and practices I keep returning to, often in unfinished or changing forms.
Systems leadership, change, and convening
Ways of seeing and acting across organisational boundaries.
Open →Four dynamics and robust systems
Differentiation, homogenisation, individuation, and integration.
Open →Relational public services
Relationships, judgement, and the conditions around relational practice.
Open →Viable System Model
Several routes into Stafford Beer’s model and its use in practice.
Open →Outcomes and complexity
Outcomes as results of complex adaptive systems.
Open →Facilitation and systems consulting
Helping from inside a system without pretending to stand outside it.
Open →Five core leadership practices
Intent, honest conversations, clarity, culture, and learning.
Open →Large-group processes
Whole-system and participatory methods, with a searchable process collection.
Open →Productive conversations
Conversation as infrastructure for shared understanding and learning.
Open →Four quadrants of thinking threats
A model for noticing ways in which systems thinking can go wrong.
Open →Cybernetics is not the banana
A story about cybernetics, representation, and practice transfer.
Open →Public-service transformation
Adaptive councils, commissioning, learning, and reform.
Open →Systems methods practice: alpha version
Technical dry runs with worked examples and answers
Alpha practice pack by Benjamin P Taylor (2026): free systems-method dry runs with worked examples and answers. Technical learning supports, but does not replace, real-world systems practice.
Systems practice case studies
Eight public SCiO accounts of systems work with organisations, communities, and public services.