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Insights on whole-mindset thinking, organisational transformation, and the people and capabilities behind a sustainable firm in a changing world
Organisational Mindset: When an Organisation Thinks as One
The Illusion of Alignment A company announces a strategy to pursue digital growth. Its chief executive speaks passionately about experimentation and e...
September 17, 2026 | 18 mins read
The Strategist Archetypes: The Mindset Behind the Strategy
A leadership team may agree on a mission, approve a strategy, and still lead the organisation in different directions. Operations may protect existing...
September 14, 2026 | 18 mins read
Why People Follow: The Whole Mind Power Framework
Power Is Not What Leaders Possess Every leader has power, but not every leader understands why people respond to it. A formal position may give someon...
September 13, 2026 | 15 mins read
When Learning Stops Moving: Rethinking the Learning Organisation
As customers, technologies, competitors, and employee expectations continue to change, organisations cannot depend solely on what worked in the past. ...
September 13, 2026 | 20 mins read
The Culture That Made You Successful May Hold You Back
In one organisation assessed through the Whole Mind framework, employees consistently identified rules, discipline, and procedural reliability as the ...
September 13, 2026 | 20 mins read
Why One Leadership Style Is Never Enough
The Strength that Becomes a Limitation Most leaders are recognised for a particular strength. Some bring order to complexity. Some drive people toward...
September 12, 2026 | 20 mins read
Your Control System May Be Undermining Your Strategy
The Control Trap When performance declines, leaders often respond by adding targets, reports, and performance reviews. When employees deviate from exp...
September 12, 2026 | 17 mins read
Whole Intelligence: How Intelligence Becomes Mindset and Releases Talent
"What we repeatedly use shapes how we naturally think. How we naturally think shapes the talents we repeatedly express". Every person has the capacity...
September 8, 2026 | 25 mins read
Leaders and Managers: Two Engines of Organisations, Often Misunderstood
Imagine a large ship sailing in the middle of the ocean. On board are two important people. One makes sure all the engines work, the crew follows thei...
July 9, 2026 | 20 mins read
The Evolution of Self Leadership
The Great Question of Human Difference Imagine two people sitting side by side. They receive the exact same news: a business failure, a harsh critique...
July 7, 2026 | 0 mins read
The Evolution of Organizational Culture and Leadership
Every organization has strategy, structure, systems, and resources, yet organizations with nearly identical strategies often produce vastly different ...
July 5, 2026 | 15 mins read
Navigate with Mindset
Navigate with Mindset In many organisations, the starting point of performance improvement is strategy. Leaders refine direction, set targets, and com...
April 23, 2026 | 5 mins read Elevate with Transformation
Elevate with Transformation Once an organisation has clarity of direction, the next challenge is elevation. Many organisations attempt transformation ...
April 23, 2026 | 5 mins read
Validate with Numbers
Validate with Numbers Clarity and transformation must ultimately lead to measurable outcomes. Without validation, organisations risk relying on percep...
April 23, 2026 | 5 mins read
Organisational Agility: How Agile Is Your Organisation?
Is your organisation fast, responsive, flexible, and agile in developing strategies to respond to disruptive changes in the business environment? Busi...
January 10, 2026 | 12 mins read
Business Outlook 2026
Forecast exists, but confidence decides The question of business outlook often appears in boardrooms, forums, and conversations among business owners....
December 30, 2025 | 12 mins read
Bureaucratic Leadership: Leading Through Plans, Rules, and Procedures
If you want to make leadership easier and more predictable, you may choose a bureaucratic leadership style. In this approach, the leader acts primaril...
September 10, 2025 | 10 mins read
Organisation Linkage
Imagine an organisation with 1,000 people, consisting of 50 leaders and 950 employees. They are spread across 30 departments and six hierarchical leve...
September 8, 2025 | 15 mins read
Ownership Competencies
People may often wonder why some organisations, such as companies, universities, and hospitals, are able to grow into large, global institutions, whil...
September 8, 2025 | 20 mins read
Human Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence
HI vs AI: Who is smarter? Artificial Intelligence is often seen as one of the reasons many Gen Z workers struggle to find employment. In Indonesia, t...
August 29, 2025 | 5 mins read
Rich and Throne on Human Intelligence
Where do wealth and power stand for you? Wealth and power are two ideas that often carry both hope and danger in human life. They can become a torch t...
August 28, 2025 | 9 mins read
Personal Brand Archetypes: What is Your Self-Image?
What image do people see in you? Everyone evaluates the people around them. We try to understand who our spouse, children, parents, siblings, neighbor...
August 28, 2025 | 9 mins read
When Will You Succeed?
When does success actually happen? Everyone wants to be successful. The definition of success may differ from one person to another, but the important...
August 27, 2025 | 6 mins read
Paternalistic Leadership: Leading Like a Good Father
The idea of a ‘Good Father’ is particularly relevant in a society with a paternalistic culture, where people tend to respect those who are older, weal...
August 14, 2025 | 10 mins read
Strategist Archetypes Game Theory
What is game theory? Is it video games? Puzzles? Certainly not! Game theory in business competition resembles a game with players and strategies to wi...
July 9, 2025 | 10 mins read Leadership Behavior is not a Choice
Every leadership training emphasizes that leadership behavior is a choice. Individuals are free to choose their leadership behavior based on the sit...
April 30, 2025 | 15 mins read
Organisational Integrity: Spirituality in Organisations
Good people can do bad things when they are part of a bad organisation. Conversely, people who may not be good can do good things when they are part o...
May 25, 2024 | 10 mins read
Leadership: Telescope vs Microscope
Tesla owner Elon Musk has an idea of building a civilisation on Mars through SpaceX. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has also entered the space race with Bl...
February 9, 2024 | 17 mins read
Barriers to Change: Why Is It So Difficult for People to Change?
Change is closely associated with uncertainty for everyone in an organisation. Uncertainty creates anxiety, doubt, worry, ambiguity, and discomfort. C...
February 5, 2024 | 0 mins read
Diagnosing Problems: Fishbones & 5 Whys
Leaders must be skilled at diagnosing various problems within an organisation. Think of a doctor diagnosing a patient's illness. A failure to diagnose...
January 8, 2024 | 15 mins read
Service Quality: What Does Quality Service Really Mean?
Sometimes we feel annoyed or even angry when we ask for something, but employees in service businesses such as hotels, restaurants, hospitals, or othe...
July 30, 2022 | 20 mins read
Leadership Theory: How Does Someone Become a Leader?
There are two streams of leadership: “born to be a leader” or “education is the mother of leadership.” Which one do you believe is right? If you belie...
November 1, 2021 | 18 mins read
VUCA to BANI: A World Full of Surprises
The world is full of surprises. A surprise is an event that we do not expect. Who could have predicted what would happen? Businesspeople were busy pre...
June 3, 26 | 15 mins readNo insights found
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