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03
Jul
Platform Leverage: A Systems Thinking Case for Strategic Investment

Platform Leverage: A Systems Thinking Case for Strategic Investment

How strategic investment in platform teams can reduce time-to-market, improve profitability, and increase delivery capacity, not through scaling effort, but through deliberate system design.
4 min read
02
Jul
An Ode to Discipline

An Ode to Discipline

In an age obsessed with passion, motivation, and personal freedom, what Alessandro Baricco might call the aesthetics of surface and speed, discipline feels like an anachronism. It lacks glamour. It does not trend. It is difficult to condense into 280 characters.
5 min read
01
Jul
[Book][4.2]Craft in Practice: Leica, Toyota, and Resilient Platforms

[Book][4.2]Craft in Practice: Leica, Toyota, and Resilient Platforms

6 min read
29
Jun
Leadership Lives Between Vision and Movement

Leadership Lives Between Vision and Movement

In contemporary organisations, the word pragmatism has become ubiquitous. It appears in stand-ups, offsites, strategy slides, and job descriptions. Teams are advised to “stay pragmatic.”
3 min read
17
Jun
Before You Flow, You Measure: The Zero Phase of the Fluid Organisation

Before You Flow, You Measure: The Zero Phase of the Fluid Organisation

Too many organisations aspire to agility, autonomy, or platform leverage, but cannot clearly explain the state they are in. They want speed without structure, autonomy without clarity, leverage without constraint. This is wishful thinking.
3 min read
10
Jun
[Book][3.1]Why Technology and Business Goals Must Converge for True Success

[Book][3.1]Why Technology and Business Goals Must Converge for True Success

4 min read
03
Jun
[Book][2.3]Applying Invisible Work in Teams and Organisations

[Book][2.3]Applying Invisible Work in Teams and Organisations

6 min read
27
May
[Book][2.2]Four Lessons in Quiet Stewardship

[Book][2.2]Four Lessons in Quiet Stewardship

6 min read
20
May
[Excerpt]The Quiet Excellence of Invisible Work

[Excerpt]The Quiet Excellence of Invisible Work

2 min read
20
May
[Book][2.1] The Quiet Excellence of Invisible Work

[Book][2.1] The Quiet Excellence of Invisible Work

5 min read