There are days when you feel like you’re operating from a higher floor of the building.

You have perspective. Your body feels relatively open. The usual frictions are present, but they don’t dominate your field. A simple greeting, a trusted voice, or a certain kind of conversation seems to lift you...

Some ideas arrive slowly.

Others arrive like a fully formed slide in your mind the moment you wake up.

This morning was one of the latter. I woke with a very simple, very familiar business tool in my head – the Ansoff Matrix – but it was not about products or markets in the usual sense.

It was ab...

Many leaders know the feeling of being stuck in loops.

The names change. The projects change. The organisational charts change. But the underlying patterns seem strangely constant:

• the same types of conflicts
• the same points of overwhelm
• the same inner cycles of drive, exhaustion, and withdraw
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Leaders are used to thinking about energy in terms of sleep, nutrition, and workload.

All of that matters. But there is another dimension of energy that rarely gets discussed in boardrooms: the way your agreements shape your available power, and the way our shared dream of the world holds almost ev...

Recently I’ve had a persistent cough and flu-like symptoms.

Nothing dramatic, but enough to flatten me for a day. Twelve hours in bed, no energy, body heavy.

What interested me most wasn’t the cough itself. It was the stories I noticed myself telling about it.

One story sounded like this:

“Som

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