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No Neutral Ground
There are only two playbooks and you are running one of them right now. Not the one in the strategy document. The one your people actually experience.
Jul 1
The Quiet Capitulation
The most dangerous sentence in any organisation is seven words long. It is never shouted, it is never challenged, and it feels like stability.
Jun 17
The Proving Ground
Crisis does not create the weakness. It strips away the layer of performance that was concealing it. What it finds was decided long before it arrived.
Jun 6
The Chairman They Ordered
BP went looking for a relentless, controlling, performance-obsessed operator, then expressed shock when he turned out to be relentless and controlling…
May 27
The Captured Boardroom
There is one question worth asking of any document of consequence that lands on your desk, before any other. Whose salary was the writer drawing while…
May 18
The Foundation Problem
Three restructures in eighteen months, each one standing in for a strategy nobody wrote. Most organisations do not have a change problem. They have a…
May 2
The Bezmenov Blueprint
There is a dead man whose playbook your organisation is probably running right now. It works best when the people running it have no idea they are.
Apr 15
When The Board Fails The Company: Australia's Leadership Class And The Long Betrayal
A country that exports iron ore, coal, gas and food to the world is rationing petrol. That is not misfortune. It is fifty years of deliberate choices.
Apr 11
The Immunity of the Incompetent
A judge releases a violent offender. A politician mandates what harms. When the bill finally comes, it goes to the public purse, and never to the person…
Apr 4
When Identity Becomes Ideology at the Top
Incompetence leaves fingerprints. Identity hides inside status, intelligence and past success, and the business quietly bends itself around one person’s…
Mar 28
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