The Step Back The Step Back When something we’ve made doesn’t land, most of us hear the verdict as personal. The work and the person who made it feel like the same thing – and while they do, we can’t see either clearly. There’s a small act of separation that...
Second-hand Certainty Second-hand Certainty A client brought something to a conversation recently: a boardroom moment that shouldn’t have bothered her, but did. What surfaced was less about her colleague than about a change in how judgement now gets made. Listen...
The Belief That Decides First The Belief That Decides First Two leaders can face the same disruption – the same facts, the same pressure, the same weeks to work through it – and come out of it having lived through something entirely different. We tend to...
Deciding Fate Deciding Fate Most days at the top of an organisation run at a pace that feels simply necessary – the next call, the next decision, the one after that. This piece sits with what that pace decides on our behalf once it stops being something we...
