Articles
Thoughts on leadership, competence, organisational culture and the future of work
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Culture Is What You Tolerate: How Organisations Teach People What Really Matters
Every organisation has a culture, whether anyone deliberately designed it or not. Leaders can write values, publish behavioural standards, create mission statements and spend considerable amounts of money explaining what the organisation…
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Why Decision Making Is the Leadership Skill That Defines 2026
Every leader makes decisions. Few make them well under the conditions that define 2026. The acceleration of AI adoption, compounding geopolitical uncertainty, and shifting workforce expectations have rendered traditional decision-making frameworks increasingly…
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Leadership Styles: What the Evidence Actually Says
Most advice about leadership styles is built on preference, not proof. Leaders are told to be transformational, or servant-minded, or democratic. As though picking the right label is all it takes to…
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Workplace Communication: Why Most Organisations Are Solving the Wrong Problem
Most organisations know they have a communication problem. They just keep solving the wrong one. When teams struggle to collaborate, or leaders feel disconnected from their people, the instinctive response is to…
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The Real AI Humaniser Is Not a Tool. It Is You.
Every organisation racing to deploy AI is asking the wrong question. Instead of “which AI humaniser tool should we buy?”. The more urgent question is, who in your organisation actually understands how…
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Work-Life Balance Is the Wrong Goal: Why Organisations Need to Rethink How Work Is Designed
Work-life balance has become one of those phrases that almost everyone agrees with, but few organisations seem able to define in practical terms. Employers promote it, HR departments build wellbeing programmes around…
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Organisational Culture: What the Evidence Says and What Leaders Get Wrong
Most leaders believe they understand their organisation’s culture. Few actually do. They confuse the values printed on the wall with the behaviours happening in the meeting room, and they mistake surface-level engagement…
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What Leaders on Leadership Get Right That Trend Reports Miss
Every year, a new wave of leadership trend reports floods the internet, promising to decode the future of management. They’re packed with data, frameworks, and buzzwords. Yet somehow, the most seasoned executives…
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Fragments of Knowing: How Leaders Decide on Incomplete Information
Every major decision a leader makes happens in the dark. Not complete darkness, but the dim, shifting light of partial information, competing priorities, and time pressure that rarely waits for certainty. The…
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Why $366 Billion Is Not Closing the Leadership Competence Gap
Every year, organisations pour hundreds of billions of dollars into leadership development programs, yet workplace performance continues to stagnate, employee engagement remains dangerously low, and executives still struggle to make sound decisions…
