The theatre around us insists that every initiative is a learning journey and every setback is growth.
I call it what it is: Performative Compliance, for that’s the space they end up operating in, eventually.
Initiatives fail for familiar reasons – irrational stakeholders, withdrawn resources, and politics overruling strategy. Sun Tzu and Niccolò Machiavelli understood this centuries ago.
Modern leadership thinking prefers to pretend it doesn’t exist.
My lens blends real-world leadership experience with timeless nuances, from Sun Tzu and Machiavelli, to separate substance from corporate noise. I prefer clarity over jargon and insight over sermons.
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