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The Day Your Best Employee Quietly Quit

Photo by Sameel Hassen The Most Dangerous Resignation Happens in Silence There is a moment inside every organisation that never appears in performance reports, never gets raised in meetings, and never triggers alarm bells from management, yet it quietly changes everything that follows. It is the moment your best employee stops caring, not resigns, or burns out publicly, storms out of the office…

Oliver Cromwell: A Study in Influence and Leadership

Artist Benjamin West Most people misunderstand power because they fixate on the moment it becomes visible. They look for the speech, the confrontation, the bold move that appears to shift everything at once. History tells a different story. Power is rarely seized in a single act. It is accumulated, structured, and made inevitable long before anyone notices. The rise of Oliver Cromwell during the…

When an Employee Stops Caring: The Leadership Failure Nobody Sees Coming

Photo by Sameel Hassen There is a moment in every organisation that rarely gets recognised for what it is. It does not arrive with a performance warning or a resignation letter, and it certainly does not announce itself in a way that demands attention. In many cases, it looks like the opposite of a problem. Work continues, deadlines are met, and the employee in question appears stable,…

The Competence Crisis

Photo by http://www.kaboompics.com The competence crisis is a Story Everyone Recognises but No One Says Out Loud It starts the same way it always does. A meeting invite lands in your calendar. No real agenda. Just a vague title that suggests importance without saying anything useful. You join anyway, because not joining would raise more questions than attending something pointless. The screen…

AI Leadership Ethics: Why Abdicating to Algorithms Is the Most Dangerous Leadership Failure of the Decade

Photo by Andrea De Santis AI leadership ethics is no longer a niche concern for compliance teams or technology specialists. It is now a defining test of senior leadership credibility. As artificial intelligence embeds itself into hiring, performance management, redundancy planning, safety decisions, pricing, and customer access, leaders face a stark reality: If you allow AI to make decisions…

Bullshit Collapse

Photo by 652234 Why Failure Always Looks Sudden Every organisational collapse is described the same way. “No one saw it coming.”“It happened so fast.”“Everything was fine until it wasn’t.” That story is comforting. It suggests bad luck.A freak event.An unforeseeable shock. It is almost always a lie. Collapse does not come from nowhere.It arrives when reality finally demands competence from…

Bullshit Endurance

Photo by Ben_Kerckx How Organisations Learn to Live With Dysfunction Organisations rarely fail when the first things go wrong. They fail much later, after they’ve learned how to live with things being wrong. That is the part most people misunderstand. Collapse doesn’t come from fragility alone. It comes from endurance. From the ability to tolerate dysfunction, absorb damage, and keep going…

The Bullshit Premium

Photo by thedigitalhype Why Talking Well Now Pays Better Than Doing Well There was a time when competence was the currency. You learned how things worked.Understood failure modes.Earned trust because, when things went wrong, you were the person people turned to, not because you sounded confident, or could verbally spew the lastest corporate jargon but because you could actually fix the…

When Talking the Job Became More Valuable Than Doing It?

Image Darren Walley There was a time when competence was obvious. Now, talking the job has become almost as important as doing it. You could see it in how someone approached a problem. In how little noise they made. In how few excuses they needed. The job was completed safely and properly, often without anyone outside the team even noticing. Today, something else is rewarded. The ability to…

The Hidden Algorithm That’s Quietly Rewiring Your Mind (and What It’s Doing to Your Life Without You Noticing)

Photo by Artie_Navarre There’s a moment you probably recognise.It’s 2:07 a.m. You promised yourself one last scroll. Five, ten, thirty minutes later, you’re still there, thumb flicking, jaw slack, a vague sense of emptiness settling in. You close the app. It opens again almost by itself. You don’t remember choosing that. You just did it. This isn’t a weakness problem. It’s a design…

Leadership and the True Cost of Workforce Cuts

Photo by Ron Lach Workforce cuts are often framed as a necessary, rational response to economic pressure. Leaders justify redundancies using language like efficiency, streamlining, and shareholder value. On spreadsheets, the logic appears sound: fewer people, lower costs, improved margins. But leadership is not exercised on spreadsheets alone. It is exercised in human systems, teams, cultures,…

Has the Web Become “The Destroyer of Worlds”?

Photo by Markus Spiske Re-Examining Oppenheimer’s Warning in the Age of Algorithms. When J. Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb ignite the desert sky in 1945, he famously recalled a line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” It was a moment that marked a turning point in human history, the birth of a technology so powerful…

The Truth We Spend a Lifetime Avoiding, And What Happens the Moment We Finally Face It

Photo by geralt There’s a moment in every person’s life when the noise quiets, the distractions fade, and the mind, finally unguarded, reveals something we’ve been avoiding for years. It doesn’t arrive dramatically. There’s no lightning bolt or cinematic music. Instead, it comes quietly, stealthily, often in the middle of an ordinary day. A pause in conversation.A second glance in the mirror.A…

Life and Diskarte (Strategy) at home: How Filipinos turn Challenges into Championships

Photo by Raúl Gómez The Art of Living Smart In the Philippines, life isn’t always easy, but it’s always madiskarte (strategic). From the Nanay who turns her front yard into a sari-sari store, to the Tatay who builds furniture out of scrap wood, to the student selling milk tea online after class, every Filipino household has its own brand of “diskarte.” (Strategy) “Diskarte” isn’t just about…

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Modern Masculinity: Breaking Free from the Expectations That Are Breaking Men

Photo by Yan Krukau How to redefine strength, purpose, and identity in a world that’s forgotten what being a man really means. The Quiet Identity Crisis No One Talks About There’s a quiet crisis happening in men’s lives today. Not the loud, dramatic kind that grabs headlines, but a slow erosion of confidence, purpose, and identity. Men are working harder than ever to fit into a world that…

7 Fragments of Knowledge That Transformed My Thinking (and How You Can Use Them)

Photo by Jamie Hagan Every so often, a single idea changes everything. Not the kind you scroll past on social media and forget ten seconds later — but the kind that sticks, unsettles, and quietly rearranges how you see yourself and the world. Over three decades of teaching, training, and learning, I’ve collected what I call fragments of knowing. They’re not rules or commandments; they’re…

The Hidden Crisis Most Middle-Aged Men Don’t See — And How to Break Through It

Photo by MART PRODUCTION You’ve built something. You’ve worked hard, maybe climbed the ladder, raised a family, and kept up the image. On paper, life looks “sorted”. Yet inside you ask: “Is this it?” You’re not alone. More men in midlife, especially men over 40, are quietly facing a crisis of meaning, purpose and direction. It’s not always dramatic; it’s subtle, stealthy. And that’s why so many…

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