Why Failure Always Looks Sudden Every organisational collapse is described the same way. “No one saw it coming.”“It happened so fast.”“Everything was fine until it wasn’t.” That story is comforting. It suggests bad luck.A freak event.An unforeseeable shock. It is almost always a lie. Collapse does not come from nowhere.It arrives when reality finally demands…
Month: January 2026
Bullshit Endurance
How Organisations Learn to Live With Dysfunction Organisations rarely fail when the first things go wrong. They fail much later, after they’ve learned how to live with things being wrong. That is the part most people misunderstand. Collapse doesn’t come from fragility alone. It comes from endurance. From the ability to tolerate dysfunction, absorb damage,…
The Bullshit Premium
Why Talking Well Now Pays Better Than Doing Well There was a time when competence was the currency. You learned how things worked.Understood failure modes.Earned trust because, when things went wrong, you were the person people turned to, not because you sounded confident, or could verbally spew the lastest corporate jargon but because you could…
When Talking the Job Became More Valuable Than Doing It?
There was a time when competence was obvious. Now, talking the job has become almost as important as doing it. You could see it in how someone approached a problem. In how little noise they made. In how few excuses they needed. The job was completed safely and properly, often without anyone outside the team…
The Hidden Algorithm That’s Quietly Rewiring Your Mind (and What It’s Doing to Your Life Without You Noticing)
There’s a moment you probably recognise.It’s 2:07 a.m. You promised yourself one last scroll. Five, ten, thirty minutes later, you’re still there, thumb flicking, jaw slack, a vague sense of emptiness settling in. You close the app. It opens again almost by itself. You don’t remember choosing that. You just did it. This isn’t a…
Leadership and the True Cost of Workforce Cuts
Workforce cuts are often framed as a necessary, rational response to economic pressure. Leaders justify redundancies using language like efficiency, streamlining, and shareholder value. On spreadsheets, the logic appears sound: fewer people, lower costs, improved margins. But leadership is not exercised on spreadsheets alone. It is exercised in human systems, teams, cultures, relationships, and trust. …