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As an executive, you are asked to sign on the dotted line for a new ERP. The Business Case is approved.The selection panel has recommended.Procurement has completed its process.The contract is ready. Now pause. You are not approving software.You are committing the...
ERP projects do not fail suddenly
ERP projects do not fail suddenly. They deteriorate quietly. Status shifts from Green to Red in a matter of weeks, but the signals were visible long before the dashboard changed colour. Scope expanding without decision discipline. Governance forums becoming updates...
When thinking becomes camouflage for inaction
Our mind is engineered for efficiency. It prefers comfort. It avoids unnecessary strain. So when a hard decision stands in front of us, something subtle happens. We don’t refuse it outright. We redesign it. We create preparation. We introduce prerequisites. We...
We are trading animals
Perhaps humans are not purely social animals. Perhaps we are trading animals. Trade may sit quietly at the centre of everything we do. Not always money. Something subtler. We exchange time for attention. Loyalty for security. Effort for recognition. Strength for...
AI as a technology investment
Most organisations still frame AI as a technology investment — a new layer of tools to automate tasks, reduce cost, or increase speed. So they evaluate platforms, draft policies, appoint an “AI lead,” and assume progress is underway. That frame is incomplete....
Tension between who we are and who we are becoming
The internal conflict we feel is often the tension between who we are and who we are becoming. Change is constant. We are not fixed. Our identity shifts quietly over time, and the friction we experience is the movement between the current self and the emerging self....
Urgent is the enemy of important
Urgent is the enemy of important. Magic begins when we make the important urgent. Let’s unpack it. Anything urgent jumps the queue. It demands attention now. Emails. Messages. Deadlines. Small fires dressed as strategic crises. Even when the task is minor, urgency...
Human interactions are like painting on a shared canvas
Human interactions are like painting on a shared canvas.The result depends less on how talented each person is, and more on how deeply they try to understand one another. If two people each try to create a perfect masterpiece without regard for the other, the canvas...
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