A human path through complexity, culture and change
Ethics. Systems. Cognition.
The book explores how organisations are being reshaped by uncertainty, artificial intelligence, and the quiet collapse of the economic assumptions that have governed work for decades. Drawing on lived experience inside a global enterprise, it examines why many transformation efforts fail not because of poor tools or weak leadership, but because they are built on cultural and economic logics that no longer hold.
Rather than offering a framework or playbook, the book takes a reflective, systems-led approach. It treats design not as a discipline of artefacts, but as a way of seeing, sensing, and stewarding human experience inside complex organisations. At its heart is a simple question: what kind of systems make humane, ethical, and meaningful work possible at scale?
This book is written for readers working at the intersection of leadership, design, innovation, and organisational change. I believe it will resonate with those who sense that the future of work is no longer a matter of optimisation, but of re-orientation.
Aleks Marinkovic, author.
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Our Substack builds on the ideas explored in After this?, but it is not an extension of the book. It is a place to think in public. To test assumptions. To look more closely at the systems that quietly influence how organisations behave.
The essays here explore three intersecting themes. Ethics, because design is never neutral. Systems, because outcomes are produced by structure long before they are shaped by intention. Cognition, because people do not act as strategy assumes they will.
The tone is deliberate. The focus is structural. The aim is not to provide quick answers, but to clarify the conditions under which meaningful change becomes possible.
Every piece begins with the same underlying question.
After this?
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