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Thoughts on leadership, competence, organisational culture and the future of work

  • The Day Your Best Employee Quietly Quit

    The Day Your Best Employee Quietly Quit

    8 May 2026

    The Most Dangerous Resignation Happens in Silence There is a moment inside every organisation that never appears in performance reports, never gets raised in meetings, and never triggers alarm bells from management,…

  • Oliver Cromwell: A Study in Influence and Leadership

    Oliver Cromwell: A Study in Influence and Leadership

    2 May 2026

    Most people misunderstand power because they fixate on the moment it becomes visible. They look for the speech, the confrontation, the bold move that appears to shift everything at once. History tells…

  • When an Employee Stops Caring: The Leadership Failure Nobody Sees Coming

    When an Employee Stops Caring: The Leadership Failure Nobody Sees Coming

    22 April 2026

    There is a moment in every organisation that rarely gets recognised for what it is. It does not arrive with a performance warning or a resignation letter, and it certainly does not…

  • The Competence Crisis

    The Competence Crisis

    24 March 2026

    The competence crisis is a Story Everyone Recognises but No One Says Out Loud It starts the same way it always does. A meeting invite lands in your calendar. No real agenda.…

  • AI Leadership Ethics: Why Abdicating to Algorithms Is the Most Dangerous Leadership Failure of the Decade

    AI Leadership Ethics: Why Abdicating to Algorithms Is the Most Dangerous Leadership Failure of the Decade

    6 February 2026

    AI leadership ethics is no longer a niche concern for compliance teams or technology specialists. It is now a defining test of senior leadership credibility. As artificial intelligence embeds itself into hiring,…

  • Bullshit Collapse

    Bullshit Collapse

    28 January 2026

    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…

  • Bullshit Endurance

    Bullshit Endurance

    23 January 2026

    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 Bullshit Premium

    The Bullshit Premium

    17 January 2026

    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…

  • When Talking the Job Became More Valuable Than Doing It?

    When Talking the Job Became More Valuable Than Doing It?

    16 January 2026

    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…

  • The Hidden Algorithm That’s Quietly Rewiring Your Mind (and What It’s Doing to Your Life Without You Noticing)

    The Hidden Algorithm That’s Quietly Rewiring Your Mind (and What It’s Doing to Your Life Without You Noticing)

    15 January 2026

    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…

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