Before you think about who, think about The Triangle.
So there's a challenge. You look around your room of senior managers, you all nod and agree - a TaskForce has to be form! This will show everyone how important this is to us, and we will have a dedicated time slot at our monthly meetings to look at this. Life will be good!
Governance
Governance is often mistaken for reporting - dashboards, KPI tracking, monthly performance reviews.
Don’t get me wrong. These things matter. But they are reporting, not governance.
Reporting enables governance. It isn’t governance itself.
So what is governance?
Why Smart Organisations Keep Failing, And What Nobody Is Naming
There is a particular kind of frustration that doesn't have a name yet.
It belongs to the founder who risked everything to build a product she believes in, who has done everything the playbook says, and is watching her runway shrink while the numbers refuse to move.
It belongs to the head of marketing who knows, with the quiet certainty of someone who has been in rooms like this before, that the next campaign has to work. Because he's running out of chances.
Belief at First Touch
Before your customers are your customers, they take a leap of faith to engage with you to hear you out, click through to your website, or talk to someone to understand your brand a little more.
That leap of faith isn’t random and has a name. I call it Belief at First Touch.
On Stability, Progress, And The Strength No One Sees
There’s a workout called the single-arm farmer’s carry. You hold a heavy kettlebell on one side and walk, trying to keep your body centred as you move. As you walk, the weight naturally pulls you off balance. The work is to stay upright - to hold steady and keep moving forward.
It looks simple. It isn’t.
The hardest part isn’t the weight. It’s maintaining balance.
When AI Becomes a Given, What’s Left?
The headlines are buzzing—IPG offloading Huge and R/GA to private equity firms. Another reshuffling of the deck in an industry that keeps trying to reinvent itself. And of course, AI is at the center of the conversation. The magic fix. The inevitable future. But let’s be real.. Is AI really the story here?
About Momentum
A picture showed up my feed one day and it caught my attention immediately. It showed a pack of wolves travelling. Of all the things that were said of the pack of wolves travelling, the one thing that stood out was the lone Alpha.
The position of the Alpha is at the back of the pack. From his vantage point, he decides the direction, the next steps, the next resting spot. The Alpha and the Alpha alone decides where to head, where to rest, when to keep going. He will, of course, take many things into consideration when he decides, but he alone influences the momentum of his pack.
The Vocabulary Of Business
W went on to explain - the seasonality, land, environment, even culture of each place is different and so the colours you can find at every point will be different. If you don’t venture out of your regular haunts, your vocabulary of colours will be very much limited. With a limited vocabulary of colours, your styling options are very much constrained and without breakthrough.
What an amazing revelation.
The 3 Dimensions Of Business Longevity
I took up a new hobby recently – rock climbing. It’s a movement sport, and one that requires you to be training your body up as you practice the sport. What this means is that on top of your climbing practices, you work in training to keep your performance on the walls optimal. Over time, I began to break down my workouts into these three areas: