Why the enlightenment may not have been all it was cracked up to be and how it impacts leadership today — We have a lot to thank the Enlightenment for. It gave rise to the science of science. It birthed the triumphant nature of ‘reason’. Of course, I am a fan — the US constitution was a product of the Enlightenment and a huge leap forward for democracy and rights. The…

How can the ontology of leadership help us understand where current thinking has gone wrong — We live in world of quantification. Don’t believe me just browse the internet for a while. My algorithm fires at me a lot of talk about data, measurement, success and stuff. All, in my opinion, symptoms of the ‘stuffification’ of modern society. A combination of commercialisation and obsession with measurement.

How the Federalist Papers are inspiring me to write more, defend my views on leadership, and human-centric organisational design and start an extreme writing marathon — Where it all started I suspect like most people in the UK I came across the Federalist Papers via the stage musical Hamilton but for those of you who don’t know they are a series of articles and essays that defend the US constitution.

Awe-inducing experiences can have a profound effect on your mental health and personal growth — I often wonder how ancient humans, pre-civilisation say, would see the world we live in now. I suspect they would have found it a strange and confusing place. …

A guide to distinguishing mental junk food from fundamental personal transformation — Self-help as a genre has been around for a pretty long time. I'm not going to play historian but the enduring appeal of How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (published in 1936 and sold well over 30 million copies) suggests it's at least 100 years old. …

Mood and brain wave music to help you focus and be more productive. — Way back in the early 2000s I attended the Silva Method training. …

Why your engagement strategy neglects the individual and needs a philosophy first — We’ve all seen the articles. ‘Your engagement strategy needs OUR survey tool.’ ‘No seriously ours is the best’ ‘Why are you still scrolling, I just told you we can unlock engagement.’ If there really was a breakthrough engagement tool it would have, well, broken through. The sad news — it’s…

I want to create some of the biggest experiments in wisdom and need your help by becoming part of it. — I haven’t felt at any other time in my life like the world needs wisdom more than now. Have you? And yet we are still very much in the early stages of understanding how wisdom developed and how you can build more of it in society at large. So I…

And the shift is already happening in many organisations that are putting their people first — I remember with sadness the day I knew I would leave a particular company. I had a new team member who within her first 6 months had been off sick once and had to adjust her day twice to deal with childcare. Nothing remarkable you might think. …