Catalysts: Technology convergence for circular transformation

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Summer Reading 2026

Toyota Production System

Lean's founding text by Taiichi Ohno shows that the most celebrated efficiency revolution in business history was circular from the start — and hands circularity transformation its strongest precedent.

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Summer Reading 2026

The Innovator's Dilemma

Clayton Christensen’s iconic analysis reveals why well-run companies at the peak of their powers are routinely vulnerable to disruption. We examine his thesis through the lens of circularity disruption.

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Summer Reading 2026

Playing to Win

Strategy is a choice, so you might as well choose to win. For circularity leaders, the framework offers an opportunity and a moment of truth.

Automat

The Commissary

What if the best place in town were the one we all went to? The Commissary is the Automat reborn — good food made special, and within everyone's reach.

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Robot Milkman

The Robot Milkman

The Circular Century's symbol: an autonomous vehicle that delivers what you need and retrieves what you're done with. One stop. Both ways.

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Future Proofing

Vendor Dependency and the Loveless Long-Term Relationship

In a performance economy, the product is a vessel. The software is the spirit. What happens when the spirit departs?

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Diplomacy

From Managers to Diplomats

Managing within a system in decline is a form of denial.

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Connection

You Don't Need Better Storytellers

Stories begin with choices. Without internal coherence, even the best storytelling can’t help us imagine, or choose, the future we need.

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Cultural Mythology

Closing the Mythology Gap

When the world changes faster than our stories, organizations lose coherence and momentum. This Letter shows how Joseph Campbell, George Lucas, and Coca-Cola demonstrated the deeper work of cultural renewal — and what it means to become fit for purpose in the Circular Century.

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Self-Disruption

Beyond Organizational Charts: Why Self-Disruption Requires Vision, Culture, and Values

What practitioners miss about Christensen's self-disruption theory—and why it matters for scaling circular innovation

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What Would Have To Be True (WWHTBT)

"What Would Have To Be True?"

You cannot A|B test your way to system change. Why circular transformation requires asking 'What Would Have to Be True?' instead of 'How Might We?'

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Introduction to Circudyne

Wrapping up our first quarterly series exploring circular transformation as systematic competitive advantage. What it takes for brands to think broader, look further, and summon the courage to build a future for everyone to look forward to.

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