Blogs and Opinion Pieces
November 21, 2025

In praise of the ‘fat’ organization

John Higgins and Mark Cole (2021)

We don’t intend here to go down the road of body shaming, but we do think most organizations are just a bit…thin.

They’ve been ‘leaned’, got ‘beach body ready’ by a managerial discourse that sees ‘fat’ purely through a negative lens – ignoring its biological and metaphorical role as a source and store of energy, an often tasty larder to be drawn on as and when needed.

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