PTFA: Past Trauma, Future Anxiety. Why Organisations Get Stuck
When the past runs the room and the future feels threatening, organisations cannot learn or prepare. PTFA names the pattern, and that is how you begin to move through it.
Getting Better in the Same Direction
When every organisation improves in the same direction, the second and third order consequences aren’t growth. They’re narrowing.
We’ve Been Looking in the Wrong Place for a Very Long Time
A pigeon navigates with its liver. Parrots call you by name when you’re not in the room. And mammals didn’t lose the ability to regenerate — the switch was turned off. What three science stories quietly rewrite about what we are.
I Said It Was Never Humans vs. Machines. Ten Years Later, Nobody Built the Human Half.
In 2016 in Perth I said it was never humans versus machines. Ten years later, the machines arrived on schedule. The human wisdom layer did not. This is what I heard in a Brisbane boardroom last week, and why the gap between the machine curve and the wisdom curve is where AI ROI goes to die.
What the Naked Mole Rat Knows (And Why the Medicine Is Already Moving)
Two signals from this week’s science — Neanderthal language DNA and a longevity gene transferred from naked mole rats to mice — point toward something larger: the medicine is moving, and we are barely noticing.
The Confidence-Preparedness Gap: Why Leaders Who Think They’re Ready Aren’t
85% of leaders say their organisation is prepared for disruption. Fewer than half have plans beyond 12 months. That gap between confidence and actual preparedness is the real strategic problem — and it has a specific structure.
