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19
Jan
Monday Myth: Team Autonomy Means Teams Can Do Whatever They Want

Monday Myth: Team Autonomy Means Teams Can Do Whatever They Want

Team autonomy has become one of the most abused ideas in modern technology organisations. What was originally meant to increase focus, speed, and ownership is now frequently used to justify weak standards, deferred quality, and blurred accountability.
5 min read
16
Jan
Friday Fun: The Soft Collapse

Friday Fun: The Soft Collapse

This is a story about humans who stopped thinking, stopped learning, and mistook tooling for competence.
2 min read
14
Jan
The Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia : a Forgotten Playbook for IT

The Rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia : a Forgotten Playbook for IT

The Rule of Saint Benedict has run communities for more than 1,500 years. No venture capital. No reorganisation every eighteen months. No motivational slogans. Just work that lasts. If modern IT wants to stop mistaking motion for progress, it should study why this rule worked.
4 min read
13
Jan
The Sponsorship Gap

The Sponsorship Gap

Organisations often claim to value senior expertise, systems thinking, and leadership maturity. Yet, they place experienced leaders or experts into complex roles without providing the conditions required for that expertise to matter.
4 min read
12
Jan
Monday Myth: The Unicorn Fallacy

Monday Myth: The Unicorn Fallacy

IT does not struggle because it lacks talent, frameworks, or ambition. It struggles because it has progressively disconnected from reality. Systems drifting too far from reality eventually collapse, regardless of how elegant they appear in presentations.
5 min read
08
Jan
Stop Chasing Motivation. Start Building Purpose.

Stop Chasing Motivation. Start Building Purpose.

Modern organisations remain obsessed with motivation. Leaders search for it, stimulate it, demand it, and worry when it fades. This obsession is not harmless. It ranks among the most manipulative, draining, and corrosive habits of contemporary leadership.
4 min read
07
Jan
Seniority, Impact, and the Wrong Questions

Seniority, Impact, and the Wrong Questions

Why hiring for accumulation keeps organisations from scaling with leverage.
3 min read
06
Jan
Embracing Risk: Engineering With Reality

Embracing Risk: Engineering With Reality

Nothing reconnects you to reality more than designing with risk instead of pretending it should not exist.
3 min read
31
Dec
Why The Leadership Chronicles Exist

Why The Leadership Chronicles Exist

As delivery gets harder, politics fills the gap. This is not a moral failure, but a structural one. The Leadership Chronicles exist because this pattern has become impossible to ignore.
3 min read
30
Dec
Enablement Over Execution: The Real Role of SRE

Enablement Over Execution: The Real Role of SRE

This article explains why the question “Can SRE do this for us?”, is wrong. What it reveals structurally, and how organisations that genuinely scale learn to replace it with a different kind of interaction.
4 min read