Aim, Method, Proceed
A reflective framework for leaders: clarify the aim, choose a method, and proceed. Why most organisations stall, and how a simple triad can restore momentum.
Learning & Practice
Habits and compounding practice — small actions that build lasting capability over time. Essays here explore learning, resilience, personal development, and the disciplines that compound.
The Gap a Mistake Opens
Fail faster is catchy, and half an idea. Every mistake opens a gap between what you expected and what happened — and the honest information is sitting inside it, if anyone looks.
Building a Learning Culture
You can't buy a learning culture as a platform or a programme. It's what people do when nobody's measuring. On the conditions that let curiosity grow — and why learning changes behaviour only when the whole system around the learner changes with it.
Leadership as a daily practice — small nudges that compound.
Leadership is built in small moments. This essay explores how everyday nudges—attention, discipline, gratitude, and purpose—compound into clarity, alignment, and meaningful work.
Releasing Business Agility
Releasing Agility is not a framework — it’s a sense-making lens for leaders. Learn how meaning, reality, and people connect to execution through Idea → Value.
Capable vs capability — building people who can deliver value
Most organisations misunderstand “capability.” This guide explains the difference between capable and capability—and how to develop people who can deliver value now and in the future.
Field Notes about coaching — and building a coaching function
Field notes from doing it - coaching people, and building and running the internal teams that coach for a living. A few notes that I've found matter.
What you made when nobody was paying you
A childhood spent making scrappy films taught me more about my career than any appraisal ever did. Not a five-year plan or a ladder to climb — a small compass built from three questions: how you naturally operate, where you add something, and what keeps you well.
Coffee with Konstantinas
A forgotten bottle of suncream, an hour to kill in a Greek taverna, and a retired schoolteacher who never stopped learning. On how to actually study — and why most of what we call studying isn't learning at all.
Tell the truth. Keep notes.
Six habits a newsroom trains into you - tell the truth, keep notes, think critically, be fair, protect what's private - and why they turn out to be the essence of ethical work.
The shed at the bottom of the garden
On Oscar Wilde, a 2,500-year-old wheelwright, and the truth that the things most worth knowing can't be taught, only earned.
But I told them
On the four levels a message gets stuck at, and how to tell whether you actually landed it or just let go of it.