In 2026, a Leader’s Real Job Isn’t Strategy. It’s Conditions.
For a long time, the core of a leader’s job was answers. Set the strategy, make the calls, direct the work. The leader was the person who knew. That model is quietly breaking
Your Most Underused Leadership Resource Is the Tension You Keep Resolving Too Fast
Most leaders are trained to resolve tension as quickly as possible. A disagreement surfaces, two priorities collide, a team splits on direction, and the instinct is to smooth it ov
What a 1968 NASA Test Still Gets Wrong About Creativity, and Why AI Makes It Matter More
Almost every talk on creativity opens the same way, with a test NASA commissioned in 1968 to identify its most creative engineers and scientists. The test did its job well enough t
Stop Saying “Fail Fast.” You Haven’t Made It Safe to Fail at All.
“Fail fast” might be the most quoted and least practised phrase in modern business. Every leadership offsite endorses it. Almost no organisation lives it. People learn
Making Just Got Cheap. Meaning Didn’t.
For most of business history, the expensive part of solving a problem was the making. Building the prototype, writing the code, producing the campaign, running the analysis: that i
We’re Handing People Leadership Ten Years Early, and Not Teaching Them to Hold a Room
Something has quietly changed about what we ask of people early in their careers. PwC’s 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer found that junior roles exposed to AI are now seven time
When Everyone’s Work Is “Good Enough,” Sameness Becomes the Real Risk
Something quietly unsettling is happening to creative and strategic work, and the people closest to it have started saying so out loud. In its Spring/Summer 2026 review, the Panton
AI Isn’t Killing Critical Thinking. Your Meeting Culture Did That First.
There is a particular kind of headline doing the rounds at the moment, and it goes something like this: AI is making us stupid. The evidence underneath it is more serious than the