It’s exhausting seeing so many posts about exhausted managers

Managers are expected to deliver performance, support people, drive culture, manage change and still get the work done. But perhaps...

19 May, 2026

Performance management is boring… until it isn’t

Performance management may feel boring until review season arrives. This article explores why performance conversations should be a regular management...

21 April, 2026

Why Performance Conversations Feel So Hard (Even the Positive Ones)

There’s something that keeps coming up in workshops, across different teams, levels, and organisations. It’s not just that managers struggle...

14 April, 2026

What Google’s Project Aristotle Taught Us About Teams and Why It Still Matters in the Age of AI

Google’s Project Aristotle found that team success depends less on who’s in the room and more on how people work...

11 November, 2025

When Innovation Feels Forced: Why future-fit managers should build cultures, not quotas

Innovation isn’t about more ideas—it’s about better conditions. In the AI era, managers are under pressure to “innovate or die,”...

04 November, 2025

Agility isn’t a project, it’s a practice

Agility isn’t a poster slogan or a once-off project — it’s a muscle, built through daily management practices and shared...

27 August, 2025

Why do we keep setting our managers up to fail?

Many managers are promoted for their technical brilliance – but managing people requires an entirely different mindset. Without the right...

29 July, 2025

Lost in Translation

Teams often get “lost in translation” when they misinterpret each other’s intentions and styles. In this reflection, Liezel van Arkel...

15 July, 2025

WorldsView Moments – January 2025

We are kicking off this year by asking a question that we’ve been grappling with over the past few months....

24 January, 2025

How do leaders actually transform organisations?

We had another wonderful OD Café this week and we are sharing some of the feedback and learnings in this...

30 April, 2024