Perspectives
Writing on leadership,
culture, and the inner life.
Essays, reflections, and practical thinking on the human side of organisational life.
February 2026
Questions to ask yourself about culture at work
“We take really good care of our employees but how do we help them with their will power, their motivation? I don’t actually know what they are up to during the day. As a distributed team, I can see what they have scheduled on the calendar, but I worry they aren’t organized or disciplined enough…
August 2025
Breaking the Cash Flow Ceiling in a Small Business
Dear reader, I have lately observed some things in several small businesses I’m working with that I want to share with you. I’ve just completed a conceptual rebrand process with one business where we’re now moving into marketing strategy, and just started working on another re-brand and growth strategy with a skin care company. Seeing…
July 2025
Six Ways to Grow Your Emotional Intelligence
Dear reader, Emotional intelligence is one of those evergreen skills that’s always in demand. Here’s two reasons why: 1: It’s a core leadership skill Leaders who excel in emotional intelligence — self-awareness, empathy, managing emotions — are better at building trust, resolving conflicts, and inspiring their teams. These are foundational skills for anyone leading people; such…
June 2025
Emotional Intelligence: Why you Should Care and Its Important Role at Work
Dear reader, What is Emotional intelligence? Here’s what Wikipedia has to say: Emotional intelligence (EI), also known as emotional quotient (EQ), is the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, and handle emotions. And, why should you care? Because emotions are part of the whole human experience and whether you know it or not, and perhaps…
June 2025
A Framework For How We Can Change Our Minds
Dear reader, My favorite thing to do when coaching or writing is to discover how far upstream one can go in researching and exploring a particular limit or issue. In doing so, I have found that the problems that we experience in life often have their causes and effects far apart in space and time,…
June 2025
Reclaim Your Agency: The Inner Leadership Reset + Journaling Guide
Dear reader, I have found that most, if not all, the issues I’ve encountered in coaching over the years have to do with what I call reclaiming agency. By that I mean the degree of agency we believe we have over the circumstances playing out in our lives and work. What can get us stuck is the…
June 2025
Two Instruments for Understanding the Transformation of Feelings
Dear reader, In my last article I promised to share more about the methodology I’ve developed and used with clients over the years. So in this article I’m going to explore a couple of instruments or frameworks I made so you can have a taste for what capability development looks like up close. I decided…
June 2025
Why Most Culture Change Efforts in Organizations Fail
Hello dear reader, I’ve been offline lately helping a business with production and marketing strategies, and its been a while since I last had time to write a thoughtful article to share. While I’ve been away, I’ve also been thinking a great deal about methodology — specifically related to culture development within an organization or…
June 2025
Some Practical Advice for Social Healing and Renewal
Dear reader, I wrote in my last article that we need to think in terms of healing when it comes to social renewal. Today I want to take a look at what social healing could entail. As usual, I tackle a topic that is far too big for one small article and I’m not trying to…
June 2025
Why We Need to Look Through the Lens of Healing and Regeneration
A very happy new year to you! 2025 is already shaping up to be another interesting and pivotal year for our world. As we continue our collective journey into the New, here’s what I’d like to propose we all prioritize this year. Everything that we do, individually and collectively, needs to be accomplished through the…
June 2025
A First Principle of Leadership: the Primacy of the Inner Life
Dear reader, I wrote last time about the one thing we miss about culture, and now I want to introduce for your consideration a “first principle” — another one thing I believe tends to get missed. And that is, your inner life — your soul as the sum total of your thoughts, feelings, and motives — is the…
June 2025
What We Miss About Culture, and How to Fix It
“There is one thing in this world you must never forget to do. If you forget everything else and not this, there’s nothing to worry about, but if you remember everything else and forget this, then you will have done nothing in your life”. — Rumi Dear reader, What is generally completely ignored about culture…