Most of life is spent training for a destination we never actually examine I keep a small drawing on my desk. A line that rises — possessions, association, the slow accumulation of what we call a life — climbs toward a peak labelled "material is important," then bends...
What a Bad Decision Feels Like Before You Admit It A bad decision rarely announces itself. It seldom arrives as a clean moment of failure you can point to and name. It arrives as a low, recurring ache — something that keeps asking for your attention, keeps needing to...
What Good Looks Like Most of the decisions you are judged on, you will not be able to judge for a long time. The hire. The vendor. The ERP platform. The restructure. You commit now, under today's assumptions, and the results arrive much further down the timeline —...
The Five Decisions That Decide Your ERP Destiny You can tell how an ERP implementation will end before a single module goes live. Not by watching the project plan, or the steering committee slides, or the vendor's demo. You tell by watching five decisions — made in...
The Illusion of Progress A man buys a bigger house to finally live comfortably. Within a year, his weekends disappear into maintenance — gutters, repairs, keeping the garden presentable, staying on top of a mortgage that demands more hours at work to service it. He...
The Edge Nobody Negotiates For There is a moment in most negotiations where one side starts pushing harder. More data. More urgency. A firmer voice. It rarely works, and it rarely needs to. The edge that actually moves things is quieter than that. It comes from asking...
What to Think About Before You Talk to a Single ERP Vendor Before you buy a lounge for your house, you do some thinking first. What colour scheme is the room? What dimensions will actually fit without crowding the doorway? What material — leather, fabric, something...
The System Owner Nobody Appointed Every digital asset an organisation buys ends up somewhere on a register. A licence, a platform, a piece of software with a dollar value and a depreciation schedule. Accounting does its job correctly here — it records the asset,...