The Doorman Fallacy (And Why You Should Never Let a Spreadsheet Fire Your Best People)
I watched a talk by Rory Sutherland recently that stopped me mid-scroll. If you know Rory, you know he has a way of saying things that sound provocative until you realise they’re just obviously true. This one hit home because it described something I’ve watched happen across the mortgage industry for years, and I suspect […]
Why the Best Teams Are Not the Ones With the Best People
In 2025, a 19-year-old Italian kid called Kimi Antonelli climbed into a Mercedes Formula 1 car and promptly started crashing it. He crashed in practice sessions. He crashed a rare Mercedes-AMG road car. He made mistakes that, in most high-pressure environments, would have earned him a very public dressing down and a ticket back to […]
Culture Is Not a Team-Building Exercise
There is a question that gets asked in boardrooms, management offsites, and leadership programmes all over the country, and it almost always gets the wrong answer. The question is: where does culture come from? The wrong answer, the one you hear most often, is that culture is something you build from the bottom up. That […]
Culture Is Not a Team-Building Exercise
There is a question that gets asked in boardrooms, management offsites, and leadership programmes all over the country, and it almost always gets the wrong answer. The question is: where does culture come from? The wrong answer, the one you hear most often, is that culture is something you build from the bottom up. That […]
What if your next job offer included a token budget alongside your salary?
What if your next job offer included a token budget alongside your salary? That question felt outlandish until last week, when Jensen Huang walked onstage at GTC 2025 and made a case that AI tokens will become “the single most valuable commodity in the world.” Here’s what caught my attention: OpenClaw & NemoClaw NVIDIA released […]
