Ego blinds everyone

The most powerful and richest people on the planet are locked in a very public struggle. But this isn’t about policy or progress. It’s about ego. Ryan Holiday nailed it in “Ego is the Enemy.” He wrote, “The ego we see most commonly goes...

Stir sleeping dogs

In business, underperforming products or segments are referred to as the dogs in the portfolio. Too often, companies merely let them lie. Yet the issue is that in time this creates a culture that will inevitably impact all other segments. If one dog is sleeping, why...

Leadership theatre always fails

Reed Hastings didn’t become Reed Hastings by copying other media executives. Yet most leaders do exactly that—they grab tactics from admired bosses and stitch them together like a corporate Frankenstein. Consider how Satya Nadella transformed Microsoft. He...

The curve that wins

Change breaks people before it makes them. The Kübler-Ross Change Curve shows us exactly how this breaking happens: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. Most leaders pretend this emotional chaos doesn’t exist. They announce a change and...

Marmite characters

Marmite, the much-loved yeasty spread widely used by many in the UK. And equally despised. When it comes to people, you know them immediately.. The person who walks into a meeting, half the room lights up while the other half quietly groans. Marmite characters –...