Well, here we are, almost half way through January already. That means that if you were one of the roughly 40% of people that make New Year Resolutions, there's a 1 in 4 chance that you have given up on your resolution already, and by the end of January, there's a 50% chance you will have given up. If you stick it out past the end of the month,...
Read MoreBack in December, I asked you to think about your big priorities for 2026 - the ones that matter, the ones that keep getting pushed down the list. Now here we are. First full week of the year. Clean calendar. Blank page. Green light. For a lot of CEOs we work with, the answer isn’t new ideas. It’s old ones - important initiatives that have been...
Read More'Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the land,CEOs were regrouping, strategy in hand.They'd dodged rising tariffs and tech that moved fast,Now wondering which plans would actually last… It’s that time of year! The pace slows. The calendar clears. And somewhere between the last meeting and the first glass of eggnog, your mind drifts...
Read MoreWhen you watch people running in a race, you’ll often see them slow down just before they get to the finish line. Elite athletes train to overcome this natural tendency, but there have been many instances of people losing the race simply because they finished too early - or thought they had. We cringe because we could see that the line was right...
Read MoreMost of us carry around a quiet mental list of things we feel we should be doing. Not just the obvious things like the strategic planning, the follow-ups, or the long-neglected improvements etc, but also the more behavioural expectations or hopes we he have for ourselves too: being more available, being more disciplined, being more present, being...
Read MoreLike many of you, we’ve been leaning into AI, using it to speed up research, simplify complex topics, and find tactical clarity. And most of the time, it’s very, very good. And therein lies the rub: most of the time. You see, we humans have spent thousands of years learning how to read our environments. In the old days, it was “is that a stick...
Read MoreWe like to think that our projects, habits, and teams are organised and orderly and move in ways that are under our control. We set off with a clear purpose, a defined goal, and a reasonable plan to get us there. And then … real life happens. People learn new things, contexts shift, and the tidy line of attack becomes more of a gentle curve....
Read MoreThere’s a pattern I've seen regularly in organisations; you may have seen it too. Something serious happens, perhaps a missed deadline, a customer complaint, or a system failure, and everyone dives into it with real urgency. Meetings are called. Charts appear. People engage. And we have one of those 'we can’t let this happen again'
Read MoreA situation that we have probably all experienced is when a problem lands on our desk and the immediate instinct is to fix it. Quickly. There’s a kind of felt need to act, to decide, to move. As someone once joked: “We’re paid to do, not to think” - and this is embedded in many or our workplace
Read MoreBy now, you’ve recognised the value of an advisory board — and maybe even started building one. But there’s a trap here. Plenty of boards are created with purpose… and then slowly drift into “interesting conversations” that never quite lead anywhere. Good people, good intentions — but no
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