Three ways of showing intent
Lots of organisations suffer from a gap between what they announce, what their structures signal, and what their behaviour actually proves. That gap is where trust erodes and priorities go to die.
Topic
leadership
A collection of 32 issues
This week's best things #90
Physical thinking, leadership withdrawal, motivation myths, AI companionship, fixed-term organisations, and feedback tools. Plus worker mobilisations around AI in arts and culture, alternatives to doomscrolling, and the beauty of a Scottish accent.
Dealing with the decision-making logjam
Even strong ideas stall when decision-making systems can’t keep up with limited leadership attention. This piece looks at why everything escalates, how attention becomes a bottleneck, and what leaders can change to reduce friction without burning out teams or themselves.
Making the Case - what leaders notice (and need) when everything’s competing for their time
Leaders are not ignoring good ideas, they are juggling trade-offs, tight capacity, and timing pressures that are rarely visible. Understanding that reality helps you work out when and how to raise things, and why ideas succeed or stall inside cultural organisations.
This week's best things #85
Opaque web filtering, accessibility, algorithmic power, the world's quietest room, crisis leadership, Google's year in search, and the dangers of organisational firefighting.
This week's best things #84
A mix of indie web oddities, creative projects, research on leadership, tools to dodge AI slop, and how AI safety features can be circumvented with poetry. Also some reflections on audio design, leadership dynamics, a design system from the Swedish state railway, and a recipe for clotted cream
This week's best things #83
A call for participants for a digital decision-making pilot, plus pieces on BoM’s troubled rebuild, leadership habits, 2026 trends, digital luxury, Theory X and Y, platform safety, judicial overreach, AI notetaker risks, and some thoughts on imagination and resilience.
Imagination, resilience and letting go
Organisations face accelerating pressure and shrinking capacity. Imagination matters, but it needs scaffolding, stability, and space to take root. Real progress comes from better conditions for decision making, small experiments, and structures that turn ideas into sustainable practice.
This week's best things #82
We've had quite a lot of snow this week, so we went sliding down the hill near our house and found a snowman. A snowy landscape is a wonderful thing.
We're off to my favourite sauna on the west coast on Sunday. Blekets Bastu is like
Clocks, clouds, and the nature of digital problems
Not all digital challenges can be fixed with expertise alone. Understanding whether you’re facing a technical or adaptive problem can change how you lead, collaborate, and design solutions that actually work.