Category: Weird Wisdom
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Contribution Leads to Better Thinking
“Fit” is easy to celebrate in teams. It feels comfortable. Familiar. It gives a sense that things are working. People get along. Conversations flow. There is a shared way of doing things that makes everything feel predictable. Leaders, on the…
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Stop Smoothing Differences
It is natural to want your conversations to feel smooth, easy, polished and predictable. No friction. No awkward pauses. No sense that things might tip into discomfort. You get good at this. Most leaders do. You learn how to keep…
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Conformity Vs Curiosity
Conformity feels safe. It reduces friction, avoids conflict, and keeps things predictable. But it also limits thinking. Curiosity, on the other hand, opens things up. It invites questions, exploration, and new perspectives. Weird Wisdom® at Work prioritizes curiosity over comfort.…
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Your Evidence Trail Passed. Your Behaviour Was Never Audited.
If you have ever heard yourself say it, you are in good company. We ran the change management program. Everyone completed the training. The policies are there in plain sight for anyone who wants to read them. Each of those…
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Not Fluff
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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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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Diversity of Thought Is Where It Begins, Not Where It Ends
When I tell people what I do, there is a particular response I get often enough that I can almost see it coming. A knowing nod, and then: “Ah, so it is diversity of thought.” I understand why. The phrase…
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The Skill We Were Taught to Avoid
Think back to your education, your early career, the way you were taught to work. Almost all of it pointed in one direction: reduce the unknowns as fast as you can. Make a plan. Gather the data. Predict the outcome.…
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Getting Comfortable with Unknowns
Every second post and media article talks about “Uncertainty” like it’s the big bad wolf. Stop it! Uncertainty is not the ‘thing’! Uncertainty is the response to the ‘thing’. The ‘thing’ is the Unknowns. “Getting Comfortable with Unknowns” is Weird…
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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…
