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There’s a peculiar tyranny in modern leadership theory - the persistent notion that work and life are two separate beasts to be carefully balanced on opposite ends of a seesaw.

Enter the familiar ima...

The standard hierarchy model with the leader at the vertex, is a delusion. In the real world - particularly in the sweaty, high-stakes, coffee-fuelled world of modern enterprise - the best leaders are...

Trust is a curious thing. It’s not printable on a glossy brochure. It doesn’t show up in mission statements, HR handbooks, or staged team-building photos featuring suspiciously happy employees zip lin...

 You can’t build a symphony with only clarinets. You can’t explore a jungle with only botanists. And you certainly can’t innovate or adapt in the real world by surrounding yourself with clones of your...

The Tyrannosuntil it wasn’t. Same with the Woolly Mammoth. Because adaptability trumps brute strength. Every time.

Let’s be clear though: adaptability is not optional. It’s the core characteristic of...

There’s a peculiar thing that happens in companies, committees, and yes, even church choirs. You ask someone what they think, and they say, “It’s fine.” You press for feedback and get a vague nod, a p...

You’ve likely witnessed the phenomenon. A murmuration of starlings swirls in the dusk sky - thousands of birds, zero mid-air collisions, no flight plan, no birdy traffic control. Or a team of ants bui...

In the well-manicured corridors of corporate predictability, we love smooth graphs. Growth that ascends in a polite diagonal. Budgets that match plans to the penny. Project plans that look like Swiss ...

It doesn’t begin with a bad decision. It begins with the absence of a question.

The death of a strategy is rarely announced with a trumpet. More often, it slips into the night, unnoticed, as people s...

How short-term financial control can silently dismantle long-term technical capability 

You can tell when Finance has taken over. The strategy starts sounding like an accountant’s spreadsheet. Engine...

How process-heavy internal systems stall innovation and choke Strategic Intent 

Bureaucracy, in its earliest form, was meant to be an enabler. A set of rails to prevent derailments. A record keeper s...