E163 – The Long Walk Back – Never Let Anyone Carry Failure Alone
For more than thirty years, I’ve held a belief that most football fans probably disagree with. I think penalty shootouts are…
E156 – Power without Mastery – The AI Blind Spot?
Like many of you, I’m navigating two very different emotions about AI — the excitement of a kid in a candy store and the…
E155 – No One Briefed The Gorilla – Prepare Then Let Go
Yesterday, Sir David Attenborough turned one hundred years old. No one alive has done more to make ordinary people like…
E149 – The Doctor Who Prescribed Parakeets – Purpose Changes Behaviour
During my years in the corporate world, a question that had often been on my mind was what makes…
E134 – The Real Win – When Silver Outweighed Gold
Wishing your loved ones and you a year when your best stories are written. In one of my favourite non-fiction books, “Influence” by…
E125 – The Power of Paying Attention – Seeing the unseen
In business, perfection is often overrated. Some of the most powerful breakthroughs don’t emerge from flawless plans or carefully controlled…
E117 – Purpose – Putting a man on the moon
What if a single sentence could define an entire culture? When I was in school I heard a story about workers who were working at a construction site.
E115 – Stand Still, Watch, Transform – Step Inside the Circle
Standing still to move faster. In a world obsessed with speed and action, the greatest breakthroughs often come from standing still…
E113 – The Billion-Dollar Dinner Question – From Rejection to Revenue
What if failure was the secret ingredient to success? When most leaders shy away from mistakes, Sara Blakely—founder of Spanx…
E94 – Machiavelli and my boss
In the late 90’s a professor at Berkeley did an interesting experiment. He got together a group of people with the same background, level of education…