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Designing Organisations
18 May 2026
Your Strategy Deck Is a Budget With Nice Fonts
Here is a challenge for you. Pull out your latest strategy deck, the one that took three months to prepare, involved six workshops, and was presented to the Board with... Read more...
7 May 2026
Your Org Chart Called. It Has No Idea What Anyone Does Either.
I spent two days recently with a client trying to understand their organisation. They handed me a thick stack of org charts. Boxes, lines, arrows, dotted reporting lines going sideways... Read more...
24 April 2026
Often the Smartest People in the Organisation Can’t Agree. Here’s What High-Performing Teams Do Differently.
Most executive teams are made up of smart, capable, well‑intentioned people. Individually, they are experienced leaders with deep functional expertise. And yet, many of those same teams struggle to operate... Read more...
21 April 2026
When Social Contract Meets Social Licence
A Framework for Organisations That Want to Earn Trust, Not Just Claim It There is a concept most leaders know instinctively but rarely articulate precisely: the idea that an organisation’s... Read more...
14 April 2026
Machines Can Do the Work. Only Humans Can Do This.
The goal of AI-led work redesign is not to move human work to machines. It is to ensure humans do human work. That distinction sounds simple. Most organisations are failing to make... Read more...
9 April 2026
Why AI Pilots Stall, and What HR Can Do About It
The more I read and the more I talk to clients and potential clients I’ve come to the conclusion that most AI pilots stall for the same reason. I see... Read more...
15 October 2025
The Six Tests of Strategy
Something I’ve observed from years of watching and observing strategy conversations is that the biggest Aha moments come from questions. The right questions cut through noise, expose assumptions, and force... Read more...
6 August 2025
The Pie Is Fixed
Rethinking the Business Partner Role Through a Distributive Lens In negotiation theory, “distributive bargaining” is the classic win-lose scenario: a fixed pie, and everyone’s trying to grab the biggest slice.... Read more...
28 July 2025
Time-Blind Culture
The Hidden Threat to Business Performance In most organisations, time is the most overdrawn account. We talk about budgets, headcount, and KPIs, but rarely about time as a finite, strategic... Read more...
17 June 2025
Culture Starts at the Top
How Leaders Shape a Successful Organisational Culture Organisational culture isn’t just a set of values written on a wall; it’s the heartbeat of how people work, collaborate, and grow within... Read more...
