Steering the Craft · Edition 9
Living at the Speed of Life
I remember my father coming home from work and telling us about a course he had attended on time management.
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Steering the Craft
Reflections on strategic leadership — published as a biweekly LinkedIn newsletter and archived here. Three additional pieces are available only on the site.
Steering the Craft · Edition 8
Navigating the Infinite
In my thirties, I had this constant awareness that I, my surroundings, and my life conditions were not as I felt they should be.
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The Return to the Curated Life
As the generous golden sunlight of August arrives, we find ourselves back in the comfort of our daily lives.
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Meet Me in the Liminal Space
Today, many of us are leaving our place in the production of the crowded world and moving towards the green fields and open seas of leisure as summer vacation arrives.
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Answers Arriving in Stillness
I believe that it is always worth remaining with a question a little longer than one feels compelled to. This is my first attempt to describe what happens when I follow through on this intention.
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On Greed
You can take too much of a good thing. But you can also take too much of the difficult.
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The Integrity Brief
That question is the invitation to write about something I have carried for years and rarely tried to put into so few lines: integrity.
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Between Movement and Home
In my first article I tried to put words to the distinction between state and movement in an organisation — something I have spent a long time searching for the right language to describe.
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Leading Without Chasing
There are moments when a quiet unease appears in the middle of conversations about strategy and development.
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The Company as a Vessel
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There are moments in my work where I find myself less occupied with what an organisation is trying to do, and more with how it seems to be.
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Staying with What Has Not Yet Found Its Language
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What matters most in a leader's account is rarely what appears to be the core of the matter, but the place where the story loses its smooth progression.
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You are not the problem. But you may be the one carrying it.
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These reflections are based on my work with leaders over time. They usually begin in the same place.
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