Essays, frameworks, and field notes from nearly four decades of building, backing, and selling businesses.
A woman built a social network for women, removed a biological male from it, and has been ordered to pay him for the privilege. Labor wrote the law. The Coalition voted for it, then had nine years to fix it and did not.
Why the topics you're told never to discuss are precisely the ones engineered to divide you, and what that has to do with the standards inside your business.
Three restructures in eighteen months, each one standing in for a strategy nobody wrote. Most organisations do not have a change problem. They have a foundation problem.
He proved a pacemaker could be stopped from fifty feet away. Seven days before he was due on stage to show how, he was dead.
The booing was not the aberration. It was the response to one. The Cenotaph is the line, and the institutions went looking for it.
A single clip can undo weeks of good marketing. Five questions to run against leadership content before it goes out, starting with whether the action proves what the words claimed.
Nobody quits on a Tuesday because of something that happened on a Tuesday. Demoralisation is not a crisis. It is a climate.
Not since Breaker Morant.
Capable operators bleeding energy through indecision, distraction, and dilution. The problem is not capacity. It is circuitry.
There is a dead man whose playbook your organisation is probably running right now. It works best when the people running it have no idea they are.
A country that exports iron ore, coal, gas and food to the world is rationing petrol. That is not misfortune. It is fifty years of deliberate choices.
Most operators think they need more traffic. Usually they need to get much better at earning the second visit. That is where the commercial game actually starts.
