Every Tribe Thinks It's the Chosen One Watch a group of friends who've been through something hard together — a house share, a hiking trip gone wrong, years of the same Sunday five-a-side game. Watch how they talk about...

Everyone Is the Hero of Their Own Show Watch a child show off a dance move to their parents. Watch them again a decade later, defending a decision in a meeting nobody asked them to defend so hard. Same wiring. Different stage. We are all conditioned to think we are...

Age Is Just a Number. It's Also a Real One. Age is just a number. We say it so often it's stopped meaning anything. Here's the truer version: age is a number, and time spent is not coming back. What decides whether the years work for you or against you isn't how many...

We Are All Guests We arrive at a company, an organisation, a marriage, a country, and within weeks we start behaving as if we built the walls. We defend the parking spot. We fight for the corner office. We treat the title as if it were carved into us rather than lent...

The Two Fights You're Actually In There is a fight going on inside you, and another one going on around you. Most executives only train for the second one. The inner fight is the one nobody puts on a status report. It's the fight to make the right decision for...

Stop Being Realistic "Be realistic" is the most common advice given to anyone with a vision, and it's usually wrong. Neverland, Wonderland, Dreamland — none of them were ever meant to be realistic. They exist so imagination has somewhere to go. When you're setting...

The Only Thing I Want From a Leader Most leadership advice is complicated. A framework, a maturity model, a five-stage transformation curve — anything that turns leadership into a discipline you can study your way out of practicing. Here is the uncomplicated version....