Experience helps leaders recognise patterns faster. It can also tempt us to skip the work of understanding where we are. This week: why the value of experience lies in knowing why the answer might be different this time.
Licence counts aren't a strategy. Real leadership defines the problem before choosing the tool, not access mistaken for transformation.
what happens when structure is sound but nobody inside it is actually being trusted to use their judgement, and what that costs organisations that are leaning harder into process as complexity increases.
Governance as a meeting is a norm worth rewriting. Governance as architecture is what replaces it.
For years I've told leaders to embrace failure as the cost of building anything new. Then a few people asked if I'd really give up a steady income to go out on my own, and I caught myself holding my own risk to a harder standard than theirs.
41% of technology leaders are considered unable to keep pace with change by their own boards. They are calling it a capability gap. When nearly half the C-suite lands in the same place, that is a pattern. Patterns live in systems, not people.
