10 essays
A double issue. April and May kept returning to one move: swapping something legible—a competency grid, a diagnosis, a silver-bullet hire, a perpetual pilot—for the harder work of judgement. The task is always to weigh the particular case, not reach for the proxy that spares the weighing.
March’s essays converge on a simple truth: leadership is less about solving problems than managing enduring tensions. From strategy to governance, the task is not to choose sides, but to exercise judgement—resisting the drift toward process, theatre, and easy answers.
A quiet change has taken place in executive life, and it is not "AI" as such. It is the arrival of smoothness as a default condition. Language is
The Scribbler The Case for Friction0:00/615.7681× Good evening, and welcome to this edition of The Scribbler—a newsletter that circles one organisational problem until it shows itself.
This quarter revealed a common flaw: organisations drowning in information yet starved of judgment. From trust to hiring to AI, the task remains the same—recover the authority to decide rather than defer.
The Scribbler: When Strategy Meets Stagecraft0:00/651.0961× It's month end again, and as Finance settle in with pizza and press the 'reconcile' button, it&
The Scribbler The Empire of Euphemism Strikes Back0:00/505.5361× Hello, and welcome to this edition of The Scribbler. This month I peer beneath the polished surface of organisational
Good morning, and welcome to this edition of The Scribbler. Given it is Easter, I thought I would take a moment to revisit my first intellectual love, history, and examine
Good evening, and welcome to the second edition of The Scribbler. A newsletter featuring an expanded set of articles addressing a key challenge facing organisations. This month I am taking
Instead of a new column, this week I am surfacing something from the archives—a selection of articles about privacy.