Empathy Is Not a Perk. It Is the Mechanism That Makes Transformation Work
Fifty-nine percent of CEOs now view empathy as a perk or a nice to have. That figure comes from
The Leader Who Doesn’t Know They’re Feared
There is a specific kind of dangerous leader that nobody talks about in boardrooms. Not the one who shouts.
Pre-Mortem: The Pentagon’s Autonomous Drones Reset
The Pentagon’s Replicator programme promised thousands of cheap autonomous drones in two years and delivered hundreds. The response has
The Most Dangerous Status Report Is the One Everyone Is Comfortable With
The governance is running. The reports are flowing. The steering committee met on time, every question got a confident
Why Western Delivery Frameworks Stall in the Middle East (and What to Do Instead)
I remember sitting across from a senior government official in the Gulf, about six weeks into a major transformation
Pre-Mortem: NHS Frontline Productivity Programme
On 1 April 2026, NHS England formally launched the Frontline Productivity Programme. It succeeds the £2 billion Frontline Digitisation
Your Personality Type Is Not Your Leadership Style. Your Behaviour Under Pressure Is.
Every few months, a personality framework resurfaces in leadership circles. DISC. Myers-Briggs. Enneagram. Belbin. Someone shares an assessment, teams complete
AI Is Eating Theory. Companies Are Firing the People With Judgement.
AI is replacing the work that used to define the first decade of a career. At the same moment,
Healthy Organisations Are Built by Healthy Leaders
Healthy organisations are not the product of wellbeing programmes. They are the product of leadership behaviour. Six disciplines describe
Pre-Mortem: Anthropic’s Wall Street Agentic AI Suite
Thirteen of the world’s largest financial institutions just deployed ten autonomous AI agents into the most regulated workflows in