Informal Coalitions in Principle

The informal coalitions perspective sees organisations as dynamic networks of self-organising conversations, through which people make sense of what's going on and decide how to act. Outcomes emerge from this everyday process of conversation and interaction.

Diverse and potentially competing informal coalitions form - at all levels of an organisation - as people seek to initiate, support or frustrate particular causes and to achieve specific outcomes.

The informal coalitions approach also places at its core the hidden, messy and informal ("shadow-side") aspects of organisational dynamics, which most conventional approaches to change leadership and business performance ignore.

The primary motivator of informal coalitional activity is people's need to make sense of the world, and to make use of that sense in ways that enable them to maintain their sense of self-worth in all of their important relationships at the same time.

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