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, performance management, redundancy planning, safety decisions, pricing, and customer access, leaders face a stark reality: If you allow AI to make decisions without…
Instructional Design
Bullshit Collapse
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…
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…
7 Fragments of Knowledge That Transformed My Thinking (and How You Can Use Them)
Every so often, a single idea changes everything. Not the kind you scroll past on social media and forget ten seconds later — but the kind that sticks, unsettles, and quietly rearranges how you see yourself and the world. Over three decades of teaching, training, and learning, I’ve collected what I call fragments of knowing….
How to Reclaim Your Confidence: A Guide for the Modern Man
The Confidence Crisis Confidence used to be simple.Or at least, that’s how it seemed. A firm handshake, a steady voice, a man who knew his place in the world — that was the old archetype. But times have changed. Modern men are expected to balance strength with empathy, ambition with balance, and decisiveness with emotional…
Parallel Intelligence: How Humans and AI Can Work in Tandem
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved far beyond science fiction. From decision-support dashboards to autonomous agents, AI is no longer a future concept; it’s here, shaping daily business decisions. Yet a striking truth is emerging: AI is most powerful not as a replacement for human intelligence, but as a partner. This partnership is increasingly being referred to…
The Great Flattening: What It Means for Managers, Teams, and the Future of Work
Over the past few years, a quiet revolution has been reshaping the corporate landscape. Once, organisations were built like pyramids, with solid bases of frontline employees, multiple layers of middle management, and a handful of executives at the top. Today, that pyramid is shrinking. Companies are stripping out layers of management in what has been…
What is Constructivism?
Constructivism is a theory of learning and knowledge that posits that individuals construct their understanding and knowledge of the world through experiences and reflecting on those experiences. This theory has profound implications in various fields, including education, psychology, and epistemology. Let’s delve into the key aspects of constructivism, its historical development, and its application in…