Loving your captor

Stockholm syndrome isn’t just a hostage story. It’s a boardroom story. A leadership story. A culture story. The leader who built the company keeps the team loyal to an idea that stopped working three years ago. Not through force. Through familiarity....

Just be in it

I sat watching a match the other night that I didn’t expect to stay up for. The South African team, ranked well below their South Korean opponents, walked onto the pitch against all reasonable expectation. The commentators were already narrating the inevitable....

The grind is the gift

We romanticize the result and forget the road that got us there. Parents know this. Ask one who is a few years past the hard years. Past the arguments and the ultimatums and the late nights, wondering if they were doing it right. There’s a sparkle in the eye...

Catching big fish

Every dedicated angler has a story about the big one. But for every trophy fish, there were dozens of small ones, and many more that got away. Keep fishing. One day, you’ll land something you never expected to bring in....

What’s important

It is intriguing the things that people find important. Timeliness Being fashionably late Privacy above all Saying what you think, unfiltered Mornings free to think uninterrupted Loyalty to outcomes over people Well-dressed for the occasion Not caring about clothes...