Leadership after the reset: Why discipline, not vision, determines impact
This is the time of the year that something subtle but decisive begins to happen inside organisations. The speeches are...
- Thursday, June 04, 2026
BusinessDay
This is the time of the year that something subtle but decisive begins to happen inside organisations. The speeches are...
By the second week of January, the calendar may say “new”, but most leaders feel something far less pristine. Strategy...
January has a peculiar way of seducing leaders into premature optimism. It has a way of giving leaders emotional relief...
The final week of the year carries a strange energy for leaders. Calendars thin out, inboxes slow down, and conversations...
The room was unusually quiet for a leadership retreat. The strategy had been clarified. The priorities were aligned. The vision...
There is a story I often return to when working with senior executives, a story about a brilliant COO whose...
There is a moment often uncelebrated in every leader’s journey when silence becomes louder than action. It arrives unexpectedly, usually...
No one noticed the shift at first. The executives had filed into the conference room with the usual choreography, straightened...
It happened in a leadership retreat I once observed. The facilitator asked a room of senior executives to share their...
The meeting room was calm, almost too calm. Ideas flowed easily, yet nothing seemed to take root. Each time someone...