The 5:15 Report
As teams grow, it becomes harder to stay connected to the reality of work. The 5:15 report is a lightweight sense-making loop—five prompts that compress progress, improvement, and mood into a readable signal.
Rob Lambert
Proximity to Excellence
Training spreads information. Proximity spreads judgement. Why being near excellence remains one of the most powerful ways to learn.
You Only Have One Priority
The word priority is singular for a reason. Focus is not a productivity hack but a philosophical stance: meaningful progress begins by choosing one thing over everything else.
Building a Learning Culture
Training does not create a learning culture. Behaviour does. This essay explores why curiosity, slack, and leadership example—not platforms and quotas—form the foundation of organisations that adapt and endure.
Breaking Down Silos: Why Interdisciplinary Work Solves Wicked Problems
Most organisational problems live between disciplines, not within them. Interdisciplinary work reveals systemic constraints, generates new knowledge, and enables organisations to solve problems that no single team can tackle alone.
Speaking as Sense-Making: Why Public Speaking Shapes Leadership
Public speaking is not performance — it is sense-making. This essay explores why speaking shapes leadership, how stories move organisations, and why clarity of voice matters more than charisma.
The Cost of Chasing Rabbits: Why Ideas Stall Before They Become Value
Ideas are abundant, but value is scarce. This essay explores why organisations chase too many ideas, how premature expectations kill creativity, and why sequencing exploration before execution is the key to turning ideas into outcomes.