Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Mix the right skills, personalities and behaviours and you get a team — or, really, you get batter. Something still has to add the heat. On motivating a team: the kinds of energy a leader can apply, and which ones actually cook.
Communication (Wiring)
On Time Speak — the tiny habit of saying not just what you'll do, but when — and how it builds a reputation for trust.
Orientation & Direction (Map)
Every organisation is a book, and right now — noticed or not — you're writing a chapter of it. On leadership, storytelling, and the difference between authoring your year and having it happen to you.
Communication (Wiring)
We like to believe what we wear doesn't matter. It does — and not only in how others read us, but in how we perform ourselves. On the research into clothing, confidence and "enclothed cognition", and the small wardrobe of triggers I use to change gear.
Orientation & Direction (Map)
It's one of the uncomfortable truths of being in business: you are always solving problems, and there are always more of them than you could realistically solve.
Communication (Wiring)
A leadership away day, a CEO who walked out — and why DISC is less a communication tool than an energy one. On style, flex, and working with your grain instead of against it.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Every space teaches you how to behave in it - long before you decide. On environmental affordance, dedicated spaces, and designing a workspace (even a kitchen corner) for the work you actually want to do.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
The old Japanese proverb, the little weighted doll behind it (and the Weebles), and what resilience actually turns out to be — once you stop mistaking it for strength.
Creativity & Climate (Engine)
Every piece of work has a rhythm — a beat of push and recover, open and closed. On learning to hear it, in your day, your team, or a whole company — and why ignoring it quietly wears people out.
Idea to Value (Physics)
Busy, spending money, and no nearer where you meant to go. On the thread from investment to activity to value — and what lean portfolio management is really there to protect.
Idea to Value (Physics)
It's never theory versus no theory — only which lens you're standing inside, and whether you ever notice you're inside one at all.
Communication (Wiring)
There are always three sides to a story — one side, the other side, and the truth. The first two arrive on their own, loudly, for free. The third you have to go and find, and it's almost always the one worth having.