305: Silence Ain’t Always Golden
Dear Friends I love silence. The Karoo’s stillness. Early morning Okavango broken by a Fish Eagle’s call. I wake most days at 05h00. Frequently, I’ll wake at 03h00 to listen to…
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303: Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s Abundance
Dear Friends Last week, I introduced you to Sarah Uhieda’s poetry. This week, global organisation, One Young World gave her a well-deserved scholarship to attend their annual gathering. Earlier in the…
302: Questions Give Answers
Dear Friends You know that from time to time, I segue into art and wine. Well, jazz too, and sometimes classic cars, and architecture, and cute critters, and, well, anything…
301: Dan Wang’s Breakneck
Dear Friends I initially read Dan Wang’s Breakneck with a simple objective – to deepen my understanding of the world’s largest economies, the US and China. I got that. Unexpectedly, I…
300: A Figure That Has Never Varied
Dear friends We are back. Thank you for allowing me my writing break. If you joined strategy, soul & self during August I apologise for my silence. I have paused…
299: The Nvidia Story: Stephen Witt’s The Thinking Machine
Dear friends You’ll remember, I hope, that this year’s newsletter schedule is a little different: it arrives weekly for three months, then doesn’t for a month. That is because I…
296: We Bake Brownies to Hire People
Good morning dear friends “All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.” These words are part of Joy Harjo’s Reconciliation, A Prayer included in How We Became…
294: Ek speel net vir julle: Abdullah Ibrahim reminds us of what’s what
Dear friends I woke on Tuesday to the news that the great Abdullah Ibrahim had passed on the day before. False Bay was wind-whipped; the Cape howling its grief. Bruised…
#290: The Strategy Thinker You Haven’t Yet Read (but should)
Good morning, dear friends Today’s letter is more essay-like than letter-like, so pour the coffee or the tea (or the wine, if it is time) and settle in. A few…
289: Obliquity: Strategy is not a straight line
Good morning friends /strategyThe strategy industry and its remoras too often create caricatures of strategy. Strategy is not a list of goals. It is not how it is measured. Nor is…
287: Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace 2026
Dear friends The month’s writing break is done, and we are back. Apologies if you joined this community whilst I was away. I should have set up an “out-of-office doing…
286: The Gifts of Reading
Dear friends Before we get to this week’s letter, a quick reminder of last week’s announcement that for this year, we will have 8 weeks of letters, followed by a…