The Foundation Problem
Three restructures in eighteen months, each one standing in for a strategy nobody wrote. Most organisations do not have a change problem. They have a foundation problem.
Workstream 2
Paul Lange's writing, arranged under the sections of the book it extends. None of it is the manifesto. Each piece was written for his own site, and says so.
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Dead Right. Nobody Killed Barnaby Jack.
He proved a pacemaker could be stopped from fifty feet away. Seven days before he was due on stage to show how, he was dead.
Demoralisation Reaches the Cenotaph
The booing was not the aberration. It was the response to one. The Cenotaph is the line, and the institutions went looking for it.
The Quiet Rot
Nobody quits on a Tuesday because of something that happened on a Tuesday. Demoralisation is not a crisis. It is a climate.
The Aerobridge of Treachery
Not since Breaker Morant.
The Bezmenov Blueprint
There is a dead man whose playbook your organisation is probably running right now. It works best when the people running it have no idea they are.
When The Board Fails The Company: Australia's Leadership Class And The Long Betrayal
A country that exports iron ore, coal, gas and food to the world is rationing petrol. That is not misfortune. It is fifty years of deliberate choices.
The Gerontocracy Has Lost the Room
They are not apathetic. They are watching. And what they see is damning.
The Immunity of the Incompetent
A judge releases a violent offender. A politician mandates what harms. When the bill finally comes, it goes to the public purse, and never to the person who caused it.
The Freedom Trap
How Self-Evident Rights Become Self-Imposed Chains
When Identity Becomes Ideology at the Top
"The segment is maturing." "We may need to review the positioning." "Customer behaviour is shifting faster than expected."
The Tide Is Turning. Now Finish the Job.
This week's Conviction was meant to be a non-political piece, and that article is still coming. I'll publish it on Monday. But when the European Parliament passes a landmark migration bill by nearly two to one and half the hemicycle stands up and cheers, that's not something you sit on until next week. Some things need to be said while they're still warm. This is one of them.
