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.
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.
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.
Seniority, Impact, and the Wrong Questions
Why hiring for accumulation keeps organisations from scaling with leverage.
Embracing Risk: Engineering With Reality
Nothing reconnects you to reality more than designing with risk instead of pretending it should not 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.
Monday Myth: More Data Means Better Decisions
Modern organisations proudly claim to be data-driven. In reality, most are data-soothed. Data does not sharpen judgement. It often dulls it. It reassures. It calms. It creates the impression that uncertainty has been handled.
Epistemic Fragility: Why IT Systems Fail at Scale
Book VI of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile is not about chaos in the abstract. It is about non-linearity. It explains why small causes can remain harmless while slightly larger ones suddenly produce disproportionate damage.
