Kolo Partners

KOLO Partners is a small New Zealand practice interested in one kind of problem: the programme that was well run, properly resourced, and still came back worse. The one everyone keeps trying to fix with more rigour and more control, and it keeps not working.

There is usually a reason, and it is not the team. Some problems are knowable and plannable. Others react to the very thing you do to fix them, so the situation changes the moment you act. More planning solves the first kind and quietly makes the second worse. Many stuck programmes are the second kind wearing the costume of the first.
This channel is where we think that through, in plain language. Short explainers and conversations about reading a system honestly, spotting when you are solving the wrong problem well, and changing the question so the impossible part dissolves.

New videos when we have something worth saying. Written pieces on Substack, and happy to talk it through on request.