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3 November 2025
Want better leaders? Upgrade your hiring discipline
Spotting good leaders is not a mystery. Leadership is predictable, measurable, and should be the foundation of every hiring decision. Yet most organisations still rely on gut feel, vague cultural... Read more...
23 October 2025
Stop Counting HiPos by Square Root.
Start Designing Your Pipeline Ever heard this rule of thumb? Your number of High Potentials should be roughly the square root of the target employee pool. So, if you’ve got... Read more...
15 October 2025
The Six Tests of Strategy
Something I’ve observed from years of watching and observing strategy conversations is that the biggest Aha moments come from questions. The right questions cut through noise, expose assumptions, and force... Read more...
9 October 2025
There is no such thing as a tough decision
I wish I had a dollar for every time I’ve heard a leader say, “this is a tough decision.” In my experience, it rarely is. The real challenge isn’t the... Read more...
29 September 2025
My Team Lost the Grand Final
Eight lessons we can learn from losing My team, the Geelong Cats, were defeated by the Brisbane Lions in the 2025 AFL Grand Final on Saturday. The scoreboard hurts. 18.14... Read more...
22 September 2025
The Job Interview – It’s Not About You
Part One: Attention Hiring Managers Great Candidates Are Scarce Not just good ones, the great ones. The kind who elevate teams, shift culture, and deliver results. If you’re lucky enough... Read more...
16 September 2025
Building Psychological Safety in Your Team
No Matter Your Starting Point In our last post, we explored the tandem drivers of psychological safety; a willingness to challenge and the ability to be vulnerable. We presented these... Read more...
9 September 2025
The Tandem Drivers of Psychological Safety
Psychological safety is often hailed as the cornerstone of high-performing teams. It’s the idea that people feel safe to speak up, admit mistakes, and challenge the status quo without fear... Read more...
1 September 2025
Applicants Aren’t Candidates
Why So Many Hiring Processes Fail Before They Begin Overheard in a corridor the other day. A hiring manager was speaking to their Talent Acquisition Partner:“None of the CVs you... Read more...
6 August 2025
The Pie Is Fixed
Rethinking the Business Partner Role Through a Distributive Lens In negotiation theory, “distributive bargaining” is the classic win-lose scenario: a fixed pie, and everyone’s trying to grab the biggest slice.... Read more...
