I’m reminded of what Michaelangelo is reputed to have said when asked how he’d managed to sculpt his statue of David from a block of solid marble: “It’s easy. You just chip away the bits that don’t look like David.”

I view the task of bringing this thinking on complex responsive processes (or complex social processes/ informal coalitions) into mainstream practice in a similar way. We just need to ‘keep chipping away’ at it.

The seductive power of the ‘ten easy steps’ approaches to change inevitably means that the challenge is, metaphorically, a bit like trying to sculpt marble. We just need to remember that Michaelangelo got there in the end!