Honey and Mumford’s Framework

A framework is scaffolding, not the building. Honey and Mumford’s Framework holds your thinking up while you do the real work.

Use the framework as a checklist, not a straitjacket. The moment it starts answering questions for you, rather than sharpening them, put it back in the drawer.

Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.

A joint family runs on unspoken job descriptions. The day someone writes them down, half the quarrels lose their employment.

An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. One page cannot change a life. But one recognised pattern can change a Tuesday, and lives are made of Tuesdays.