Flywheel — Learning & Practice
Learning is the ultimate advantage
Working life is where you get gradually better at what you already know how to do. On learning as a practice, not an event.
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Engine — Creativity & Climate
Why Lack of Fun at Work Is a Warning Sign
The meeting ends. People file out. Nobody lingers. There is no laughter, no side conversation that runs a minute too long — just movement from one room to the next. Experienced leaders notice it before they can name it.
Flywheel — Learning & Practice
Why I created the 10 behaviours — and what 15 years of using them taught me
We were scaling fast and the standard hiring playbook wasn't working. Skills alone didn't tell us who would thrive. So we studied the outliers.
Physics — Idea to Value
Why most organisations have feedback — they just have it too late
Most organisations have feedback. They just have it too late. By the time the quarterly review arrives, six months of small signals have compounded into one large, expensive surprise — and the window for response has already closed.
Wiring — Communication
Why Communication Is the Most Important System in Your Organisation
Most organisational problems don’t start with strategy or process — they start with misunderstanding. This piece explores why communication is the wiring that connects ideas to value.
Physics — Idea to Value
Stop Debating, Start Testing
Ten executives. Six meetings. A thousand-pound broadband decision. An essay on why debate, at every altitude of the business, is cost — and why small tests are the fastest way to move any idea, in any function, toward any kind of value.
Physics — Idea to Value
Why You Shouldn't Compare Teams Using Metrics
In the right hands, a team's metrics are a mirror. In the wrong hands, the same numbers become a lever. An essay on why team-level metrics should never be used to compare teams — and what actually goes wrong when leaders reach down for the numbers.
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Financial value is external — and everything else is cost.
A startup with £100m in the bank is still running out of money. Every meeting, every experiment, every lesson learned — all of it is cost until a customer pays for something worth paying for. Financial value is generated outside the business, not inside it.
Physics — Idea to Value
How Team Continuity Builds Trust, Knowledge, and Momentum
A group assembles. A team accumulates. The difference between the two is one of the most expensive things most organisations never measure — and one of the most overlooked drivers of performance.
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Why Improving Process Can Make Things Worse
Better processes don’t guarantee better outcomes. This piece explores why improving the wrong system can accelerate failure — and why direction must come first.
Physics — Idea to Value
Why Methods Don’t Create Value (Learning Does)
There is no single correct way to work. Methods help, but they're not the point. Why feedback and learning matter more than frameworks in turning ideas into value.
Physics — Idea to Value
Is This the Team to Get It Done?
Most leaders know they don't have the team to get it done. Very few do anything about it. The three honest axes — ability, behaviour, environment — and what it takes to close each one.