Aligned teams ship. Most teams don't.
The problem is the conversation nobody's willing to have.
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Alignment Is the Risk Nobody Talks About
You can feel it before you can name it. The company is growing. Hiring is up. Teams are shipping. The board deck looks healthy. But something is off. Meetings take longer than they should. Decisions get revisited. Good people leave and nobody can explain why. There is a drag on
Vision to Values: The 9 Misunderstood Blocks of Aligned Teams
Most leadership teams are misaligned. And it’s not because they don’t care. It’s because no one taught them how to align the building blocks of vision, strategy, and culture with the same discipline as a well-run product org. The result? * Goals become unclear * Decisions get harder * Teams
The Systems and Tools and I Use to Run My Life and Business
Last updated: April 2025 I’ve always been fascinated by personal productivity. Not for the sake of ticking boxes, but as a means of unlocking human potential. That interest started early. While on exchange at Copenhagen Business School, I began planning the first TEDxMacquarieUniversity event. The team I was leading
1-2-1: Reduced friction isn’t alignment
I keep hearing the same story from product leaders: the exec review that went sideways despite months of stakeholder alignment. Your last planning meeting felt smooth. Everyone nodded. No one pushed back. And you walked out slightly uneasy without knowing why. 1 Principle Alignment is behaviour under pressure, not agreement
The Dickens Process: When Knowing Isn't Enough
The cost of standing still is invisible. Until it isn't. Most of the leaders I work with know exactly what needs to change. They can articulate it clearly. They've probably known for months, sometimes years. And still, they haven't moved. This isn't
Most Saved LinkedIn Posts of 2025
I started posting consistently on LinkedIn in April 2025. These are the posts people saved, returned to, and shared most. Together, they reflect the conversations I was having most often with leaders navigating pressure, ambiguity, and change. If you missed a few when they were first published, this is a
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