Something useful.
Something to think about.
A growing collection of resources, ideas and practical tools for leaders, alongside selected works from people worth listening to.
Tools for the work.
Practical tools for reflection, conversation and leadership. Made to be used, shared and returned to.
What Teams Need to Succeed
Lessons from Google’s Project Aristotle
A visual overview of the five team dynamics identified through Google’s research into effective teams.
The Eisenhower Matrix
Priorities & Time
A simple framework for separating what feels urgent from what actually matters.
Project Aristotle
Why Are Some Teams Stronger Than Others?
A short introduction to Google’s Project Aristotle and what its findings suggest about how effective teams work.
Multitasking
Are You Good at It?
A short look at what happens when we try to do several things at once — and the costs that can come with it.
Good thinking is worth finding.
Books, research and other work that I have found useful, thought-provoking or worth returning to.
Quiet
Susan Cain challenges the assumption that the loudest voice in the room makes the best leader. Drawing on psychology and real-world stories, Quiet explores how modern culture can overvalue extraversion and overlook the strengths of more reflective people. Great leadership, she shows, comes in many temperaments. Introverts — and those in between — have just as much to offer.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman explores how intuition can lead us astray through bias and overconfidence. Our thinking, he argues, operates through two systems: one fast and intuitive, the other slower and more deliberate. Drawing on decades of research, he shows how recognising these patterns can help us think more carefully about the decisions we make.
The EQ Edge
NASA learned that technical ability alone wasn’t enough when selecting people to live and work together on long-duration missions; interpersonal and emotional capabilities mattered too. Stein and Book make a similar case for the workplace: EQ matters alongside IQ. They break emotional intelligence into practical, learnable skills that can strengthen leadership, relationships and performance.
The Getting Unstuck Workbook
A practical companion to The Science of Stuck
Britt Frank challenges the idea that being stuck means we don’t know what to do. Often, we know — but something gets in the way of doing it. Through practical exercises and reflection, she explores the patterns, habits and internal resistance that can keep us from moving forward. Useful when the challenge isn’t finding another answer, but understanding what’s stopping us from acting on the ones we already have.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership
Leadership rarely comes down to a single idea or approach. This collection brings together different perspectives on what effective leadership can require — from self-awareness and decision-making to managing people and leading change. It is less a book to read for one answer than a collection to return to when a particular leadership challenge makes one of those perspectives relevant.