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As Practitioners, We Often Need What We Sell
Today’s Strategic Alignment Journal post in two sentences Practitioners are often drawn to work that meets a need they understand from the inside. Needing another person to help us apply our own tools doesn’t weaken our expertise; it may deepen our understanding of why those tools matter. I recently reorganised a list of people I…
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How Are You Designed to Prosper?
The Comfort of a Ready-Made Answer When faced with the question – how are you designed to prosper – we may immediately start looking for the answer outside ourselves. We think we’d find the answer in a book, a course, training, or copying someone else’s blueprint. The big blind spot is that within all the…
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When leadership development is offered before the leaders are understood
There are solutions being offered to leaders… conferences, workshops, and programs designed to strengthen leadership, build confidence, and equip managers with the tools to perform at a higher level. There is value in all of it. Leaders need space to think, to learn, to sharpen how they show up. That part is not in question.…
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What Happens When Integrators Try to Live Inside Specialist Templates?
For a long time I thought my life made no sense on paper. If you lined up my work history the way a career counselor would, it looked scattered. Laboratory work. Sales. Marketing. Workshops. Systems thinking. Copywriting. Organizational behavior. Training. Consulting. Framework-building. None of it followed the clean arc we’re taught to admire. I kept…
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Routine can be a double-edged sword
On the one hand, it creates rhythm… steadiness… trust with yourself. It’s how things get done when motivation dwindles. It’s how we move forward without renegotiating every decision from scratch. Routine builds muscle memory for progress. But when routine goes unquestioned… What once supported momentum can quietly become a blindfold. You keep doing the thing…
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The Hidden Story Behind How we Think
I’ve always paid attention to the way we try to explain thinking… how we map it, categorise it, make it teachable. I came across a framework recently that grouped thinking into four modalities — critical, systems, strategic, design. It’s tidy. It’s appealing. It’s simple and makes what could be an extremely complicated topic…palatable. And yet……
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Review & Renew
I’ll be honest—I haven’t done this consistently. But every time I do, it helps. We put so much energy into setting goals, crafting the perfect plan, and trying to follow through. But how often do we pause to review? To check in? To clear the slate and renew? I’m becoming less and less interested in…
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