Category: Leadership
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Let’s Explore It
Most of us were taught that success comes from having the right answers. The smartest person.The expert.The one who knows. But life, leadership, and meaningful work rarely operate that way. The people who navigate complexity well aren’t always the ones…
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How do you engage new perspectives in your team?
Every new team member brings something valuable. Not just skills or experience, but a way of seeing; new questions they think are worth asking, assumptions they haven’t yet been told not to challenge, and approaches that feel obvious to them…
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Collective Vs a Collection of Individuals
How do you talk about the people you work with? Not to their faces; in your head, in your emails, in your meetings. Do you say “the board needs to understand…” or “the IT crowd just don’t get it…” or…
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They Call Weird Wisdom “Fluff.” The ISO Standards Disagree.
The framework that gets filed under “soft” is built from the exact behaviour the ISO standards already require. I called my framework Weird Wisdom. In a room full of executives, budgets and risk registers, you can guess how that lands.…
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The Fear at the Top No One Talks About
We have become quite good at talking about how disruption affects employees. The anxiety on the factory floor, the worry in the open-plan office, the junior staff wondering whether their role survives the next round of automation. These conversations matter…
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The Hole in the Middle of Most AI Strategies
Two numbers have stayed with me since I first read them, and I think every leader could do with paying more attention to them. Ninety-nine percent of CEOs expect AI to reduce their headcount over the next two years. Only…
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Uncomfortable Questions
There are questions sitting in your team right now that no one is asking. Not because they lack importance. Because they carry a bit of weight. They disrupt the flow. They make people pause and wonder if it is worth…
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Diversity Isn’t What You See
If your teams removed job titles and backgrounds from the room, would there still be meaningful difference in how decisions are made? Diversity is often reduced to what can be seen. Roles. Titles. Backgrounds. A checklist that feels complete because…
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Do You Dump and Run?
You have probably seen it. Someone posts a considered piece of content on Social Media, something that invites a response, sparks a reaction, or asks a question worth answering. People engage. Comments appear. Thoughtful replies arrive underneath the post. And…
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The Ideas You’re Discarding Too Soon
Think about the last time an idea fell flat in a meeting. Maybe it felt half-formed, or too far from the current direction, or just not quite right for where the team was trying to get to. The conversation moved…
