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Thoughts on leadership, competence, organisational culture and the future of work
Decision Making
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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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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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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…
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Are Leaders Born or Made? Why Leadership Is Built, Not Inherited
The question of whether leaders are born or made has hung around leadership theory for decades, and despite the thousands of books, leadership programmes, competency frameworks, and personality assessments that have appeared…
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How to Design a Competence Assessment Programme That Actually Works
Most organisations invest in training, yet struggle to prove whether any of it actually sticks. Employees complete courses, tick boxes, and move on, but the real question remains unanswered: can they actually…