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Leadership

The Price of Agency: Why Senior Leaders Can’t Switch Off

There is a popular idea that professional maturity means learning how to separate work from life. Set boundaries. Switch off. Protect your time. In many contexts, that advice is healthy and necessary. But there is a level of seniority for which this clean separation becomes a myth. When you are accountable not just for tasks but […]

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Strategy

Big Ideas, Bad Results: Avoiding Strategic Uselessness

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy, only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. This scenario plays out far too often in the corporate world. In a rapidly shifting business landscape, with advances like AI, quantum computing, advanced robotics, blockchain, and gene editing, spending valuable time and resources developing a strategically useless […]

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Management

Evolving Perspectives on Managerial Success

As a strategy consultant at various firms, including most recently at Strategy&, I would have argued that success as a manager means “leading a team to solve complex problems and deliver the best client outcomes”. While these goals remain important, my perspective on management has evolved since then. As I transitioned from external consulting to […]