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13 July 2026
You Picked Stars. You Needed a Team
What the World Cup Exposes About Your Talent System | Part Two (read Part Two: The Nine-Box Grid Has No Away Fixtures) Here is a pattern this World Cup will... Read more...
9 July 2026
The Nine-Box Grid Has No Away Fixtures
What the World Cup Exposes About Your Talent System | Part Two (read Part One: Messi and Ronaldo Were HiPo Once, Too) Is Your Top Talent World Class, or Just... Read more...
3 July 2026
Messi and Ronaldo were HiPo Once, Too
What the World Cup Exposes About Your Talent System | Part One Somewhere in your organisation there’s a list. On it are the names marked “high potential” (HiPo). It gets... Read more...
30 June 2026
Busy Leaders, Broken Teams: Why Busyness Destroys Development
If you think being busy is a sign of success, think again. Busyness kills the very thing that drives performance: developing your people. What Gets Sacrificed for Your Busyness? When... Read more...
18 June 2026
The Best TA Leaders Don’t Buy a Dog and Bark Themselves
They know the difference between a strategic partner and a vendor. If you have built a strong internal Talent Acquisition function, the last thing you want is an external recruiter... Read more...
27 May 2026
What Real Strategy Looks Like Inside a Functional Plan
A Business Strategy Guide If last week’s post landed uncomfortably, good. Discomfort is usually a sign we have touched something true. The question I hear most often after making the... Read more...
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...
