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The Strategy Beneath the Strategy

5 pieces

Building and delivering strategy that connects vision, value, and people.

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Articles & Posts
29
OCT
2026

We would never run a turnaround the way we run our strategy.

Nobody in our industry confuses a turnaround with the weeks the plant is offline. Those weeks are only the visible part. Behind them is a year or more of work, with almost every function involved, because a delay costs not only money but production. Strategy is rarely treated that way.
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22
OCT
2026

Our strategy was agreed. Were the alternatives ever on the table?

Most leadership teams can explain what their strategy commits them to. Far fewer can explain why it was chosen over the alternatives, because the alternatives did not make it into the room.
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CI Deployment Series

9 pieces

Designing CI as a system integrated with the business — delivering its priorities, managing its performance, and reaching beyond a project pipeline.

Episodes
Articles & Posts
4
JUN
2026

Training is the easiest part of CI to fund — and the easiest to waste

Most deployments start with a wave of it. Hundreds of people trained, two days of theory, a certificate at the end. Months later, much of it has quietly faded, because the training was never anchored to anything the business had actually decided to do.
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28
MAY
2026

CI deployment — the two-year cliff

Most continuous improvement deployments look healthy in year one. Year two is when something quieter happens — and almost no one names it. On the failure mode that is set not at implementation, but at the start.
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Making Data Speak

7 pieces

Putting data, information, and analysis at the heart of decision-making and performance management.

Articles & Posts
8
OCT
2026

Choose your measures, or inherit them?

I’ve walked into a lot of businesses over the years, and one thing repeats. Different companies, different countries, different scale, different strategies entirely — and remarkably similar dashboards.
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1
OCT
2026

What are we leaving behind when we speed up?

For years, our defence against a bad number was simple: we were slow. Someone had time to look at it and say “that’s not right.” We’re about to lose that.
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Management Craft

6 pieces

Management as a learnable skill: readiness to lead, know-how, and the ability to read the situation, make the call and set the standard.

Episodes
Articles & Posts
15
OCT
2026

Many projects are lost before the charter is written.

“Lack of sponsorship” and “resistance to change” are rarely why a project fails. They’re the conditions almost every project starts in.
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20
AUG
2026

Capacity or aim?

Most organisations are running at half their capacity and calling it full. Not because people aren’t working hard — but because “hard” and “productive” stopped meaning the same thing a long time ago.
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The Human Margin

6 pieces

Working with people at every organisational level is what makes good leaders — and what builds careers. Everything else in an organisation runs through them.

Episodes
Articles & Posts
9
JUL
2026

Writing something down doesn’t make it happen.

But I have spent the better part of my career walking into situations where someone, somewhere, genuinely believed it did.
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2
JUL
2026

The quiet ones

Some of the best talent I have worked with was nominated to a CI project because nobody thought it mattered enough to send someone important.
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