Zurich: Conferences as Creative Pilgrimage
A reflective photo essay on conferences, travel, sound, and creativity—how walking Zurich helped reshape a keynote and renew creative attention.
Rob Lambert
The Four Essentials for Creative Workplaces
Modern workplaces depend on more than processes and tools. Communication, creativity, critical thinking, and learning form the human operating system that enables clarity, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Seeing People as a Leadership Discipline
Relationships endure beyond roles and expertise. This article explores why seeing people is a foundational leadership discipline — and how relationships shape performance, culture, and work.
Coaching as Capability Architecture: Simple Plans That Compound Human Pote
Coaching is how organisations evolve. This guide reframes coaching plans as capability architecture — a simple structure leaders can use to grow people, performance, and systems over time.
Hiring Is Organisational Design in Disguise
Hiring is not recruitment administration. It is organisational design, cultural encoding, and a structural decision about how ideas become value. This essay reframes hiring as one of the most powerful leadership acts in any system.
Hard and Soft Communication: Flexing Your Leadership Style
Effective leaders flex between directive and relational communication. This essay explores when to be hard, when to be soft, and why context — not personality — should shape leadership style.
Delivery vs Control: Who’s Actually Doing the Work?
Most organisations spend more on organising work than delivering value. A simple role audit reveals where money, complexity, and misalignment creep in — and how to redesign for Idea → Value flow.