Category: Leadership
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Charting a Course: Why Agile Leadership is Non-Negotiable
This is a follow-up article to The Shifting Winds of Business: Why Agility is No Longer Optional, from last month. Imagine the captain of an America’s Cup yacht barking orders, micromanaging every trim of the sail, every shift in weight.…
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Smarter Execution: Lessons from the 37th America’s Cup
As I watched the gripping races of the 37th America’s Cup unfold, witnessing New Zealand and Great Britain engage in a battle of skill, agility, and split-second decision-making, I was struck by how much yacht racing can teach us about…
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The Shifting Winds of Business: Why Agility is No Longer Optional
From August to October 2024, the Louis Vuitton Cup (Challenger Selection Series) took place to determine which team would face the Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand, in the Louis Vuitton 37th America’s Cup Match. Naturally, I’ve been cheering for INEOS…
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Building the Leaders of Tomorrow: Systems Thinkers for an Agile Future
In an increasingly complex and interconnected world, the traditional leadership playbook—focused on command-and-control structures, incremental improvements, and rigid hierarchies—is no longer enough. To navigate today’s challenges and capitalize on opportunities, organizations need leaders who can think in systems, align strategy…
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The Most Misunderstood Aspect of Business Agility
For those who know me, I’m viewed as being passionate about simplicity, continual learning, and unlocking the potential within people and organizations. Whether I’m leading product discovery, enabling product mode transitions, or driving agile transformations, I focus on aligning vision…
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Everyone’s Asking “How Do We Adopt AI Safely?” It’s the Wrong Question.
Every leadership team I speak with is asking the same thing: how do we govern AI adoption? Reasonable question. Wrong starting point. The Governance Scramble Boards want policies. Legal wants guardrails. IT wants architecture standards. HR wants training programmes. Everyone…
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Technology Just Changed Categories. Most Leaders Haven’t Noticed.
Until recently, technology’s history fit a single phrase: humanity’s quest to manipulate atoms. Fire to stone tools to metal. Agriculture to the Industrial Revolution. Horse-drawn power to steam, combustion, electricity. Then something shifted. The Abstraction Jump By mid-twentieth century, technology…