Leadership
The AI Maturity Gap: Why Most Organizations Are Stuck
The board says go do AI. The team has the tools. But nothing's changing. Here's why — and what to do about it.
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Leading in the Age of AI: What Actually Changes
AI doesn't make leadership irrelevant. It makes the quality of leadership more visible than ever.
Work Design
AI Isn't a Tool. It's a New Workforce.
The organizations winning with AI aren't deploying better tools — they're rethinking how work gets done entirely.
AI & Work
Human in the Loop Isn't a Safety Feature — It's a Strategy
What it means to design organizations where humans and AI genuinely partner — and why most companies are getting it wrong.
Dear AI therapist…
Lately I've been experimenting with AI as a therapist or coach.
Podcast Launch
🎙️ I'm launching a podcast — and it's not what you think.
The Role of Humans in an AI World
Are you in the driver's seat of your human-AI partnership?
Unlock Better Decisions: What Self-Management Teaches Leaders
Leadership often comes down to one thing: decision-making. Interestingly enough, some of the best insights on decision-making actually come from self-management.
3 Reasons to Reimagine the Org Chart
Org charts are a lie. It looks like a neat order of people and what they’re in charge for.
Breaking the Busyness Trap in Organizations
In the last few years, it seems like every water cooler check in when someone asks, "how are you" is met with "busy".
The Cost of Overworked Employees
Is it fair for employers to expect people to work on the weekends?
The Secret to Organizational Innovation
We’ve been using an old playbook to lead organizations, and it’s costing us massively.
What Humans Do Better Than AI
We're living in an AI revolution.
What Organizations Get Wrong about People
This is one of the world’s first org charts. From 1896.
Why Getting Things Done at Work Feels Hard
The world of work was designed for robots.
3 Reasons Senior Leaders Experience Decision Fatigue and 2 Antidotes
When I was on a leadership team, I both loved and hated making so many decisions. I enjoyed the mental challenge of thinking strategically, solving problems and operating in ambiguous environments.
Work vs. Life: The Pursuit of Wholeness
I’ve recently read a book called "The Good Enough Job" that explores how deeply we’ve come to identify our value with the work we do.
Leading innovation in teams
At the end of last year, I’ve taken up an art hobby. I’ve been painting!
Bullying in the workplace
Every May, New Zealand celebrates Pink Shirt Day. Pink Shirt Day is an Anti-Bullying Day, it’s a movement dedicated to celebrating diversity in all forms.
Embracing the unknown
Over the last month, I’ve been away on a scuba diving trip down in Fiordland.
Navigating the Information Age
I have a high bar when it comes to effective meetings. Because my job is supporting leaders and teams in using their time together effectively, I get impatient quickly.
Making unconscious bias more conscious
A while back, I was at an event and connected with someone new. Part of the intention of this event was to have more meaningful and honest conversations.
Artist Dates to Unlock Problems
Today, I went on an Artist date. An Artist date is a solo adventure you embark on once a week to unlock your creativity and open your sense of possibility.
Ruthless Prioritisation in Teams
Lately, across a few organisations, I've been hearing the desire for ruthless prioritisation. This makes my heart sing.
Making balance and focus the new normal
At the end of 2022, I was down with COVID. After evading it for 2 years it finally caught up with me.
Goodbye 2022!
We have made it to the end of 2022! Wow, and also whew.
Building a Responsive Organisation
Originally published on the August blog
Cultivating Emotional Maturity
Originally published at tendirections.com on January 10, 2019.
From Tag to Tennis: Lessons in Feedback
Originally published on the August blog.
Intelligent Emotions: How to Be Human at Work
Originally published by Ten Directions on August 8, 2018
Strategy in the 21st Century
Strategy is a word that is overused these days to mean any range of different things. Often I’ve seen organisations create elaborate plans and name them the strategy.
Unlearning our way to Agility
Originally published in the August blog.