The Commons gives you a steady stream of serious writing each month. The Inner Circle takes you further: weekly articles, marginalia, series, audio, and the conversations that shape the work behind the scenes. If the Commons is the public square, the Inner Circle is the study—quieter, deeper, and better furnished.
🖋️ Weekly Articles
Commons members receive one article a month. Inner Circle members receive a new article every week—the full breadth of my work: leadership, governance, culture, organisational psychology, historical analysis, and the occasional philosophical diversion.
If you value consistency, depth, and a well-argued line of thought, this is the heart of the subscription.
📬 The Scribbler
A curated monthly dispatch gathering my latest thinking, marginalia, and worthwhile insights from around the web.
📖 Series
Many of the deeper explorations unfold as ongoing series—sustained lines of inquiry into leadership, governance, strategy, culture, and organisational life.
The Leader–Manager Series is the best known, but there are others: strategic clarity, authority, generational dynamics, and the small but consequential decisions that shape institutions.
Dr Robert N. Winter
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Each series is designed to be read either as a sequence or dipped into as needed. Think of them as modular chapters in a larger, slowly unfolding book—rigorous enough for boardrooms and postgraduate classrooms, but written with a style and panache that is often smothered by corporate requirements or academic style guides.
Inner Circle members get the full sequence, the connective tissue between instalments, and the extended notes that make sense of the larger arc.
🎧 Audio Editions
Most major articles include an audio version—for commutes, walks, or the unclaimed moments of the week.
🗒️ Marginalia
Shorter notes, reading fragments, philosophical scaffolding, and the occasional contrarian thought. It’s the workshop behind the finished work.
✨ Occasional Extras
Draft chapters, behind-the-scenes notes, extended series, and research breadcrumbs that don’t make it into the public feed.
📚 Full Archive Access
Unlimited access to the complete archive of articles, columns, podgrams, and earlier editorial experiments.
Why the Inner Circle Exists
The Inner Circle is where the most substantial work happens: articles that require time, research, and a willingness to judge ideas on their merits rather than their popularity.
Your subscription enables this work to remain independent—not beholden to advertising, platform incentives, or whatever the managerial zeitgeist happens to be this week.
Thank you for supporting writing that privileges rigour, scepticism, and intellectual honesty.
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No pressure. But if you’ve read this far, the Inner Circle is almost certainly where you belong.
Dr Robert N. Winter