Priorities Are Expensive: What Subsystem Dominance Does to a System
Priorities Are Expensive: What Subsystem Dominance Does to a System Prioritisation is treated as a management virtue. If everything is...
Rethinking HR: From Administrator to Architect
Rethinking HR: From Administrator to Architect For decades, HR has asked for a seat at the table. It’s the wrong...
ESG Is a Cop-Out
ESG Was Always Going to Fail and So Will Whatever Replaces It, Unless We Fix the Architecture For two decades,...
The Engagement Crisis
Employee Engagement Is a Readout, Not a Target Engagement sits at historic lows. The global figures hover around a quarter...
The 80/20 Trap: What the Pareto Rule Does to a System
The 80/20 Trap: What the Pareto Rule Does to a System When You Optimise By It The Pareto principle, 80%...
Forced Ranking Doesn’t Measure Performance
Forced Ranking Doesn’t Measure Performance. It Manufactures the Behaviour That Destroys It. Plenty of organisations still reach for employee ranking...
From Profit Maximization to Value Optimization
Purpose Is What the Architecture Optimises. Not What the Mission Statement Says In 1970, Milton Friedman gave the corporation a...
Interdisciplinary Work: The Art of Seeing in Layers
Seeing in Layers: Why No Single Discipline Can Explain an Organisation In an age of complexity, no single discipline holds...
Rethinking DEI: Beyond Optics, Toward Substance
Rethinking DEI: Why Representation Is a Metric, Not an Outcome Diversity, equity, and inclusion are everywhere in corporate life, from...
Dispelling the Myth of ‘We Can’t Find Talent’
“We Can’t Find Talent” Is Usually the Wrong Diagnosis Across industries, one line dominates the conversation: we can’t find talent....