Category: Weird Wisdom
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What if Difference is Your Contribution?
Many people spend years trying to fit in. What if your greatest advantage is the perspective that makes you different? The ideas you hesitate to share.The questions you think are unusual.The perspectives that don’t fit the norm. Those may be…
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You Already Have the Thinking. Here’s Why You’re Not Using It.
The problem is almost never that people don’t have good thinking. It’s that they don’t trust it enough to use it. You’ve probably noticed something before anyone else or had an instinct that turned out right—and dismissed it as ordinary.…
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Why Distance Exists Part 2 of 2
Yesterday’s Part 1 covered the distance between what your evidence trail proves and what your people are doing. Standards are written to be auditable; an auditor cannot observe judgement, so organisations build for the artifact and end up running two…
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Why the distance exists? Part 1 of 2
“We ran the change management program.”“Everyone completed the training.”“The policies are there for anyone to read.” All true. None of it tells you whether anything is different in the meeting where nobody said the thing they were thinking. A program…
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Learning Isn’t a Phase
The most successful individuals and organisations aren’t the ones who know everything. They’re the ones who remain curious long after others become certain. What’s something you’re currently learning? The future doesn’t belong to the people with all the answers. It…
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Why Your Meetings Are Wasting Your Best Thinking
In your last meeting, how much of the real thinking actually made it onto the table? For most people: not much. Meetings are designed to report and align, not surface insight, which means the best ideas often never get said.…
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Starving the Thing That Drives Results?
You can hold every certification on the wall and still lose to the team with the better driver(s). So why do we keep investing in the certificate and starving the thing that drives the result?
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A Leadership Necessity
The workplace isn’t becoming simpler. It’s becoming more complex. The ability to navigate unknowns, engage difference, and challenge assumptions isn’t a nice-to-have anymore. It’s becoming a leadership necessity.
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They Call Weird Wisdom “Fluff.” The ISO Standards Disagree.
I called my framework Weird Wisdom. In a room full of executives, budgets and risk registers, you can guess how that’s met. For some people the name files it under fluff before I have finished the sentence. I understand it.…
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Changing Your Mind
The most effective leaders aren’t attached to being right. They’re committed to understanding more deeply. Weird Wisdom® encourages intellectual flexibility over rigid certainty. Because growth often begins with reconsidering what we think we know. Share a moment when a new…
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