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Thinking on leadership, judgement, and complexity — written for senior leaders who face real pressure and prefer substance over noise.
These articles explore the tensions, paradoxes, and pressures that define senior leadership in complex environments.
They are not tips, hacks, or quick-fix thinking. They are serious reflections on what it takes to lead wisely when the answers are not obvious and the cost of getting it wrong is real. Each one is written to help you see something more clearly — and to be genuinely useful, whether or not we ever work together.
A House of Dynamite
A House of Dynamite
Every leader believes they’re ready.
Almost none are.
They’ve assessed the risk.
They’ve built the plan.
They’ve briefed the team.
Then the moment arrives and the plan meets reality.
And we all know the phrase “no plan survives first contact with reality”
Yet we still believe ours will.
That’s when leadership must step up a level, when preparation meets challenge under pressure.
After writing about the podcast The Wargame, I watched the new film A House of Dynamite by Netflix.
It’s another confronting leadership case study, that will challenge every part of you to watch.
It’s uncomfortably real.
As a leader, as a human, it will unnerve you and it should.
