We love to talk about leadership, culture, behaviour - all that tricky stuff that, in our opinion, can make a break a business. Here you’ll find a load of content - some of it super geeky, some of it a little more generic. All of it is connected by a simple thread, it is deeply rooted in organisational psychology, neuroscience, biology and organisational design.
If there is something you want more of, or disagree on, let us know… we like to rethink and relearn.
Articles
THE SCIENCE
How habits, memory and workplace triggers shape the way leaders actually behave.
Why patterns form in milliseconds, and how leadership change can happen in ninety minutes.
Why an organisation ages like an ant colony, and where the real leverage sits.
Sprain an ankle and the limp outlasts the injury, which is exactly how an organisation ends up defending behaviour nobody ever chose.
The hidden network of power and loyalty that really decides how a company runs.
How a twenty-year pattern becomes editable, and the short window that lets it change.
FOUNDERS & SCALE-UPS
Why the behaviours that built the company start to break it at fifty people
What runs a founder on automatic long after the company has outgrown.
Why a founder's own doing becomes the company's ceiling, and how to move past it.
Why most start-ups fail from founder conflict, and why success makes it worse.
DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOURS
Why the threat reflex shuts down your best people, and what safety buys back.
Why micromanagement is a gift that overstayed, and the moment it turns costly.
How the quiet objection nobody voices ends up costing the decision.
How the quiet objection nobody voices ends up costing the decision.
What a 2025 study found about pressure, refusal, and the caution that caps growth.
What reactive behaviour protects, and the point at which it starts costing.
LEADERSHIP
Ten protective habits leaders keep running long after the threat has gone.
Why a leader's job is to open up space, and how the instinct that built the company quietly closes it.
Why a leader's real job is to open up space, and what quietly closes it.
PROOF
How one session found what three years of programmes missed at an 8,000-person telecom.
The coaching and training market described fairly, including where SSC is the wrong answer.
How a company said the right things and expelled everyone who tried to change it.
A boardroom story about the decision everyone wanted and no one would make.
THE NUMBERS
A calculator that prices defensive leadership as lost payroll and weighs the return.
Why removing disengagement recovers the ten trillion dollars Gallup says it drains each year.
A calculator that prices defensive leadership as lost payroll and weighs the return.