Trust Comes Before Change Management Some leaders give long speeches. They build the case, anticipate every objection, try hard to convince, and say all the right things. And yet no one follows them. The room nods. The room leaves. Nothing changes. Other leaders say a...
You Don't Choose Your Direction. You Choose Your Problems. Your direction in life isn't something you decide once and then follow. It's a byproduct — the residue left behind by the kind of problems you keep choosing to solve, repeated often enough that it hardens...
The Body Has a Cure for Parasites. The Mind Has None. Watch an animal weakened by a parasite and you see something almost unbearable to look at — a creature slowly drained of the energy it needs to live, with very little agency to stop what's happening to it. If it's...
Governance Protects the Boundaries. One of the key functions of project assurance and governance rarely gets said out loud: it exists to protect boundaries. Not to police people, not to slow anyone down — to protect the line between what's approved and what isn't,...
If It Doesn't Move the Needle, It's Clutter The developed world runs on abundance. Food, clothes, ideas, freedom, words, information, data, technology — none of it is scarce anymore. Leadership operates inside that same abundance. More slides, more talking points,...
How to set up a project for success? Most people trying to make a project succeed spend their energy on the wrong end of it. They manage harder — more meetings, more chasing, more heroic effort when things slip. Success isn't manufactured there. It's set up before the...
Trust Is the Real Currency, Not Attention A tradesman in your neighbourhood has had the same clients for twenty years. He doesn't advertise. He doesn't have a slicker van than the competitor who opened two streets over last spring with a flashy logo and a paid ad...
Volume Is the Secret. Sustainable Is the Catch. Watch a musician practising scales for the thousandth time, a surgeon doing their two-hundredth appendectomy, a case worker completing another intake interview that looks exactly like the last one. None of it looks like...