Topics
Articles organised by theme, exploring leadership, governance, strategy, and organisational life. A place to follow ideas across time, trace recurring arguments, and explore the work by topic rather than chronology.
Governance
Writing on boards, accountability, decision-making, and institutional design, with a focus on how governance either sustains or corrodes organisational legitimacy over time. Meant to catch what leadership alone won't.
Skin in the Game Is Now the Law, Yet Nothing Has Changed
The Chair's Dilemma: When the Board Becomes the Problem
The Problem With Telling Your Board What They Want to Hear
The Board: Polarities and the Role of the Director
Who Guards the Guardians?
Business & Strategy
Analysis of strategy, competition, and organisational coherence, drawing on classical strategy, contemporary practice, and scepticism toward fashionable frameworks.
The Officer of Last Resort
Stop Trying to Solve Every Tension: Some Are Polarities to Manage
2025 in Review: Authority, Attention, and the Return of Coherence
The Creator vs. the Passenger: Rethinking Recruitment in Charities
How Corporate FOMO Replaced Strategy with Stagecraft
Society & Politics
Reflections on power, institutions, and public life, exploring how political ideas shape—and are shaped by—social norms, incentives, and cultural assumptions.
Ideas & Culture
Essays on the intellectual currents that influence how we think and work: philosophy, culture, language, and the often-unexamined ideas that structure everyday decisions.
Science & Technology
Writing on technological change, scientific authority, and their organisational and social consequences—separating genuine progress from inflated promise.
Publishing & Media
Observations on writing, publishing, and the media ecosystem, including the economics of attention, the craft of authorship, and the changing conditions of public discourse.