How does a Wise CEO begin setting a new trajectory?
‘The gap between cleverness and wisdom’ was a phrase I heard a few years back that has stayed with me. There are numerous examples of this gap in business and in day-to-day situations. In business, the gap between cleverness and wisdom is often the difference between a business that merely performs and one that transcends. […]
There are multiple versions of a CEO. What have you chosen?
‘The variety of niches individual humans can occupy is immeasurably greater than the niches available to individuals of other species. This is our forte as well as our flaw. One of the distinctive attributes of the human psyche is that it takes wildly diverse and creative shapes. But the capacity of most earlier human cultures […]
How do you build a better, Transcendent Business?
Building a Transcendent Business starts with being aware that there is a superior version of business out there. It involves meeting your business where it is at, in terms of its evolution and reimagining what is possible. Most transcendent businesses have faced a defining moment, and instead of surviving it, they have used it as […]
How to stay big when the squeeze comes
We all have big and small versions of ourselves. When my children are irritating me, and I react in a grumpy way – and sometimes worse than grumpy – my small self is in the driver’s seat. My big self would see the moment and the actions of my children as irrelevant in the grander […]
Become undulled and re-imagine your work
My son started boarding school yesterday, 35 years after I moved into the exact same dormitory. His bed is about 5 metres from where mine was. My bed was steel, the next dude was about 2 feet from me, and there were 25 of us crammed together with no separation, privacy or storage space. It […]
Building a masterpiece of a business
Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon is often described as the greatest concept album ever produced. I remember hearing it for the first time — a sonic journey that felt alien and familiar all at once. Sixteen tracks woven into a single tapestry. Not just listened to, but experienced. Recorded at Abbey Road […]
The hollow victory of business
There’s a moment I think about often — the final one. Not morbidly, but honestly: that last look back. It’s the reckoning we all face, the point at which the real story of our life is told back to us. I try to live in service of that moment — not in fear of it, […]