Seven secondhand sins

You can find a great deal at the vintage market. That is not what this is about. There is a category of secondhand that looks like wisdom, feels like strategy, and passes for leadership. It is none of those things. It is borrowed. And borrowed, in business, is rarely...

The little elephants

Outside Spitalfields Market in London, small bronze elephants stand guard. Baby elephants. Orphaned because humans wanted something they had no right to take. Ivory. Status. Greed dressed up as commerce. And yet. Someone decided to rescue those babies. Someone built a...

No VAR for this

I was watching football recently when VAR was called in. Everyone paused. The referee walked to the monitor, studied every angle, and still came back with a decision that half the stadium disputed. That stayed with me. Because we’ve somehow convinced ourselves...

The tortoise still wins

I have been thinking about LIV Golf. Not from a sports angle, but from a strategy one. When it launched, it was hard not to be at least a little intrigued. The money was real, the players were serious, and there was genuine energy around the idea that the old model...

The conversation nobody wants

Most leadership teams can talk about the competition, the market, the strategy. What they can’t talk about is each other. Not really. Not the things that matter. The dependency that isn’t working. The relationship that broke six months ago. The team member...