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Do you like the feeling of others having power over you?

Power shapes everything, leadership, companies, and the societies we live in.
What we rarely question is what drives people to seek it in the first place.

Not everyone wants a leadership position with the same intent.
Some step into it to take responsibility and build something meaningful.
Others are primarily drawn to power itself and how they can use it to advance themselves.
That difference is hard to detect in hiring, but over time it defines the kind of leadership we get.

Power also shifts the behaviour of even...

Three days after We Are Losing Respect, it's time to turn what you noticed into practice.

What did the post-its show you?

In this reflection session, we work with your Respect Stacking patterns to find what sits underneath them.
I share five practices you can start using immediately.
Three daily habits to build the foundation of grounded respect.
Two countermeasures for the moments when your triggers hit.
Short, practical, and designed to make a difference.

Most of us consider ourselves respectful.

But what happens to that respect when we're stressed, tired, or in a hurry?
When we're talking to someone we don't need anything from?
When the person in front of us is slowing us down?

This episode is about why respect collapses under pressure.
What research tells us about the cost of disrespect at work,
and why respect that isn't grounded in our values is just performance.

I also share Respect Stacking, an exercise I built for myself to uncover the patterns most of us don't see.
Try it for three days before the...

This is a guided reflection on the beliefs that shape your leadership.
It will help you uncover what impacts your thinking about the role of a leader and show you where a review and update could be valuable.

In this 10-minute reflection episode, you will walk through the five-stage framework from the Leadership Belief Audit (Mirror, Origin, Test, Cost, Rewrite) applied to your beliefs about your role as a leader.

This episode is designed to be done, not just listened to.
Pause where prompted. Answer honestly.

If you want to go deeper across more areas, download the full Leadership Belief...

A room of over 100 leaders is asked to get creative and draw something in pairs.
They reach for safe little landscapes with houses, trees, the sun in the corner.
Then the brief changes, and the same room produces something completely different.

This episode is about how our beliefs shape environments and produce outcomes that confirm those beliefs, but may not be what we wanted.

What happens when modern expectations meet outdated assumptions about human motivation?
And what does that mean for engagement, innovation, and the kind of leadership we actually need?
Includes an invitation to run your own leadership...

What if the biggest threat to the future of human work isn't AI, but what most organisations believe about the meaning of work in our lives?

Over the past 20 years, my work has taken me through different industries, countries, and companies. What I've seen again and again is that organisations fall into two categories: those that treat people like any other resource, and those that see people as the reason their business exists.

The future of work depends on the right leadership, not just technology.
That is what The New Work Playbook is about.

Monday episodes explore why something...