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There is something most founders carry that they can't put down - and can't hand to anyone around...

Many organisations invest significantly in how they operate. Delivery processes improve. Systems...

Somewhere in the early weeks of a startup's life - before there is an org chart, or job...

Organisations have shape - operational shape: the pattern through which work moves, decisions...

A team standardises on a single vendor platform. Costs fall. Integration complexity reduces. The...

Mentoring is usually treated as an activity. For some leaders, it is not an activity at all. It...

Organisations have never been better at strategy formulation. The thinking is sharper, the...

When work stalls, organisations reach for the same diagnosis: clarity is missing. If only...

Stanford researcher Bob Sutton spent years studying why capable organisations struggle to execute...

Most people assume mentoring means advice. Experience transfer. "Here's what I'd do." It's an...

In Part 1 - “Why strategy gets lost in execution” - I argued that strategy fails at translation:...

Most strategies are good enough to succeed; they fail in the journey from intent to action. ...

Equity is the most expensive currency a founder has. Once it’s given away, it’s gone. Yet too...

Most of us know the Eisenhower Matrix: the 2x2 grid for categorising urgent and important...

On the weekend, I overheard a conversation between a teenage son and his father. The boy was...

Sometimes, there’s too much choice (or too many people trying to make a decision). "Where shall...

I just read an interesting piece in Forbes[1] about how talent strategies are evolving. It made...

A couple of weeks ago, I collected around 100 windfall apples from the yard and disposed of them...

RAG stands for “Retrieval-Augmented Generation”. Natural language processing can be simplified...

For the past week or so I’ve had the phrase “Agile all the way down” ringing in my head. I guess...