Insights, research, theories and tools on managing people, organizations, and systems for effectiveness and impact.
A sharp critique of “kindness leadership,” exposing how sentimentality masks structural injustice and why true leadership begins with justice, not niceness.
Management
To pretend businesses can avoid shaping people is to deny both the reality of work and the responsibility every organization owes to human flourishing.
Education
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A critique of business schools’ claim to value-neutral teaching: why refusing to “moralise” is itself a moral—and political—choice with far-reaching consequences
A critique of management theory’s refusal to analyse power, arguing organisations must be understood as political orders structured by imperium, dominium, and potestas.
Business
A critique of apolitical systems thinking, showing why real social change requires conflict, power, and a realist model of structure–culture–agency.
How the popular “oxygen mask” metaphor distorts our understanding of care and well-being—and why real flourishing depends on nurturing reciprocal relationships, not individual self-sufficiency.
Psychology
How the logic of punishment and control, borrowed from criminal justice, shapes our workplaces—masking power and inequality beneath the rhetoric of agency and merit.
Autonomy in self-management is not liberation from control, but the mature internalisation and reflexive navigation of responsibilities, rights, and shared purpose.
Transformation
Are we witnessing a healthy recalibration of work-life balance, or a slide into self-indulgent disengagement— and what does this mean for the future of work?
Ethics
Most of life isn’t “normal”—and our trust in averages blinds us to the reality that outliers, not averages, shape our world.
After a century of theories, are we any closer to understanding what leadership demands—or have we just built a tower of Babel?
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A dramatic exposé of the so-called “Nobel Prize in Economics”—how a Bank’s vanity project hijacked Alfred Nobel’s vision and shaped the world for the worse.
Economics
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A satirical study of why leadership bullshit proliferates as real leadership wanes.
The Pyramid Scheme: Management’s Favourite American Fantasy
Why not every mistake is worth celebrating—and what kind of failure actually drives learning and growth in organisations.
Personal Development
After decades of “New Work” and endless transformations, organizations are still failing to deliver well-being—can we finally build workplaces that help people thrive?
Diversity is real and necessary. But when it becomes dogma, it risks replacing justice with quotas, and merit with arithmetic.
4 Reasons Why New Narratives Cement the Old Status Quo and Avoid the Real Work - and Why Good Is the New Black
The future belongs to builders, not just dealmakers.
Everyone is selling “hybrid” as the future of work. But the data is inconclusive, the challenges are immense, and the hype distracts from the real redesign.
