Idea to Value (Physics)
Last week my wife and I went out for a meal at our local pub. It was our anniversary. The experience delivered the opposite of everything we were paying for — not through malice, but through a series of cost decisions made without reference to purpose. Layer tag: The physics
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Before anyone puts pen to paper, the same things happen every time. Laughter. Nervous smiles. A low hum of anxiety. Then the disclaimers arrive. The drawing exercise is simple. What it reveals about fear and the creative process is not.
Communication (Wiring)
Whenever we communicate, noise gets in the way. Understanding the different types of noise — and how they distort meaning — is one of the most important communication skills managers can develop.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
I own far too many notebooks, and I've downloaded every note-taking app going. On why the tool was never the system — and why a knowledge system that doesn't change your behaviour isn't doing its job.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
This is not a desk tour. It is an explanation of why the studio exists at all — and an invitation to join what happens inside it.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
I won't pretend this came from a place of balance. My pillars of life had drifted. So I took a weekend retreat — not the romantic kind — to finally start a decade-old project. What I found was not peace. It was clarity.
Idea to Value (Physics)
I once walked into a room and found a whiteboard headed "Our Most Hated Customers." On why service is never a department — it's a signal of how the whole organisation is actually built.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
I once consulted in an organisation experiencing a genuine wellbeing crisis. The executive team's conclusion: employees simply weren't resilient enough. More sick days were taken after the resilience training than before it.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Good leaders share a quiet but powerful trait: they notice. Not just the obvious events but the patterns beneath them — and they have developed the ability to frame what they see in ways that help others see it too.
Idea to Value (Physics)
I use a children's puzzle to teach leaders about change. It sounds childish — but I have now run this workshop over 700 times, with teams as small as six and groups as large as 140. The pattern is always the same.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
Most workplace learning does not work — not because the content is poor, but because consuming information is not the same as developing capability. This essay explores the two modes of learning, and why doing always beats knowing about.
Learning & Practice (Flywheel)
Time blocking is one of the simplest tools I use to stay focused. It is also one of the most misunderstood — not about controlling time, but about seeing clearly how you are spending it.