Blogs & Articles
Short pieces written between engagements. Anyone deciding whether to book, and anyone who would rather read first than ask.
Power without a throne
Authority looks like position. Most of the time it is permission: granted quietly, and withdrawn the same way.
The one who speaks first
What a team settles in its opening minute usually decides the rest of the meeting.
Lines that hold sand
Some structures do not stop the drift. They slow it long enough for something to take root.
Standing on the line
A boundary is not a wall. It is the place where you can still be reached and still be yourself.
Complexity is not complicated
SUMMARY What is harder: a holiday on Mars, or becoming market leader? Mars is complicated: folded, so it can be unfolded. A market is complex: woven, and it keeps weaving while you watch. The difference is not how hard a problem is, but how it answers back. Researchers have been saying so for nearly eighty years. So why do we keep describing complex problems as complicated, and what does that choice cost? (2900 words)
What holds a system up
Look past the hierarchy chart: coherence lives in the joints, where the parts carry each other.