The Captured Boardroom
There is one question worth asking of any document of consequence that lands on your desk, before any other. Whose salary was the writer drawing while writing it?
Writing.
Essays, frameworks, and field notes from nearly four decades of building, backing, and selling businesses.
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The Real Verdict in Giggle v Tickle
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.
The Engineered Tribe
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.
The Foundation Problem
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.
Dead Right. Nobody Killed Barnaby Jack.
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.
Demoralisation Reaches the Cenotaph
The booing was not the aberration. It was the response to one. The Cenotaph is the line, and the institutions went looking for it.
The Signal Audit: Five Questions to Ask Before You Put a Leader on Camera
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.
The Quiet Rot
Nobody quits on a Tuesday because of something that happened on a Tuesday. Demoralisation is not a crisis. It is a climate.
The Aerobridge of Treachery
Not since Breaker Morant.
The 6Ps Framework - How to Stop Bleeding Energy and Start Leading with Precision
Capable operators bleeding energy through indecision, distraction, and dilution. The problem is not capacity. It is circuitry.
The Bezmenov Blueprint
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.
When The Board Fails The Company: Australia's Leadership Class And The Long Betrayal
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.
