Nobody Is Sabotaging Your AI Rollout
A viral survey said nearly half of Gen Z are sabotaging AI at work. Read the 37 pages behind it and the number falls apart - the real drag sits one floor up.
When the Playbook Runs Out
Shaping Your Team
You Are the Conditions Your Team Works In
The behaviour you find most frustrating in your team is usually a response to conditions you set. Before you decide the problem is the person, look at the system around them.
What Leading Asks of You
You're Training Your Team to Hold Back
A team with no initiative isn't a people problem. It's a conditions problem. And the conditions are usually closer than the leader thinks.
What Leading Asks of You
The Role Expanded. Did You?
You worked hard for this. You wanted it. Nobody told you it would feel like this. On the five transitions nobody puts in the job description.
What Leading Asks of You
The System Worked Perfectly
Sixteen people sat in silence for fifteen minutes. Nobody questioned it. On systemic behaviour, reinforcement, and what leadership actually asks of you.
Shaping Your Team
When the Team Takes Over, You've Done Your Job
The group went further than I planned. It was exactly what they needed. What happens when you create the conditions and get out of the way.
Finding Your Voice
My Work Should Speak for Itself
You can be doing excellent work and still be overlooked. Not because it isn't good - but because the right people can't see it.
When the Playbook Runs Out
AI is Ready. Is Your Leadership Team?
Why many leadership teams slow AI adoption - not because the technology isn't ready, but because the human implications are harder to face.
Shaping Your Team
Why Your Team Isn't Actually a Team Yet
Why many leadership teams mistake structural and design problems for trust issues - and what changes when interdependence is designed intentionally.
What Leading Asks of You
The Lightness and Seriousness of Work
A reflection on humour, seriousness, and why teams often think better when people stop managing impressions at work.