We’ve lost our bearings.
The world changed faster than our ability to make sense of it. BBHQ notices the absurdity, names it, and tells its stories.
Workplace absurdity is a signal of our times.
You’ve Seen It
Organizations are producing absurdity at scale. Decisions that contradict stated values. Meetings that perform alignment while nothing actually changes. Behavior that looks irrational from the outside is often the most intelligent response available inside a constrained system.
BBHQ exists to name what systems cannot say about themselves.
Research by InSpark Group below.
What We Do In The Studio
The Writing
InSpark Research
InSpark Research
The Brief is a monthly field note from inside organisational life, published on The Age of Absurdity. Five observations. What they signal. One question worth sitting with. It feeds directly into BBHQ’s work, alongside the annual Workplace Absurdities Report, which tracks the year’s patterns at scale.
InSpark Research
InSpark Research
InSpark Research
Field papers and formal investigations. The theoretical architecture behind what BBHQ notices in the field, built for anyone who wants the rigour underneath the stories.
Books
Practitioner Work
Practitioner Work
Stories from inside the meeting that went perfectly on paper. Behaving Badly Books tells the version nobody puts in the minutes, the one where the emperor’s outfit was really something.
Practitioner Work
Practitioner Work
Practitioner Work
Courses and tools for people who see what’s happening and need the vocabulary for it. Built for the ones already living inside it, not the ones writing case studies about it.
How We Work
Signal Noticing
The Brief, Founders Notebook, and field dispatches that include satirical pieces, field notes, and deep dives from BBHQ that notice and document the absurdity all around us.
Research & Interpretation
Behaving Badly HQ explores the absurdity of workplace human behaviour through field observations. The InSpark Group interprets BBHQ's field observations through formal investigation and research which then build the theoretical architecture behind the absurdity signals framework.
Put It To Work
Put It To Work
Tools like the Workplace Squeeze Course and Practitioner Pathway translate what we notice and research into something you can actually use.
Follow the Work
New essays and resources on naming what’s hidden and working with what it reveals.