The work below reflects our point of view on operating models, organisations, leadership practice, and the commercial engine — drawn from inside the businesses we have run, not the textbooks about them.

Field Notes

High-Performance Culture

High-Performance Organisations

Why culture can be engineered, and how. High-performing organisations do not outperform by accident — they win because leadership deliberately designs an operating system that makes the right behaviours easy and the wrong behaviours hard.

Field Note · 2025

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Leadership Practice

Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

What leaders should actually do about it. Strategy defines priorities and trade-offs. Culture determines whether those choices get executed consistently at scale — and most leadership teams have it backwards.

Field Note · 2025

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Operating Model

Offshoring Isn't Dead

Why productivity, not wages, is becoming the decisive lever. Labour-arbitrage offshoring is no longer the default. The question is how AI and automation change the operating model decision — not whether offshoring ends.

Field Note · 2025

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