Through his work as a management consultant beginning in the 1980’s, Peter Koenig became curious about why organisational change projects so often fail, and why the vision of the founder of an endeavour so often fails to materialise.

During dozens of small workshops with founders end entrepreneurs where the stories of their vision and initiatives are explored, a set of principles emerged. They provide a guide to how human initiatives operate. Their seeming universality has profound implications for founders, and by extension, the operation of organisations of all kinds.

Many tensions, conflicts, successes and failures in organisations which can often be hard to unpick, can be easily explained through a lens of source. This presents a huge opportunity to work consciously, creating initiatives that run smoothly.

The fundamentals of the Source Principles have been confirmed hundreds of times in practice during Koenig’s research. Over the last decade, the approaches for intervening in companies and other initiatives where things are not working well have been refined and are elaborated in the book Work with Source.

This website serves as a quick introduction to the main principles uncovered by Koenig’s research.

If you have a story to share, question to ask, or need help with your situation, please get in touch.

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