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...
Eight Words Every Program Sponsor Should Be Able to Define Most executives sponsoring a technology or transformation program were never taught to distinguish a problem from a solution, or a requirement from the thing meant to satisfy it. There's no reason they would...
You're Not Behind on Technology. You're Missing One Question. You're in the room. A vendor says "AI-powered." The dashboard on screen looks clean and modern. Everyone's watching to see if you'll push back or just approve the budget. Most executives approve the budget....
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...
How to Find the Best Consultant Most people pick a consultant the way they pick a restaurant. A recommendation, a slick deck, a confident voice on the first call. By the time they realise the fit was wrong, they're six weeks in, the invoice has been paid, and...
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...
The Trade-Off Nobody Names When Leaders Demand Speed Every leader eventually asks the same question: how do we increase our speed of delivery? It's a fair question. It's also the one most likely to be answered dishonestly — not because anyone lies outright, but...