The Ground Has Shifted
An ordinary Tuesday, 275 interruptions and the Capacity Gap. None of them are slacking — and the data proves it.
On LinkedIn
The books are one half of this.
The comments are the other.
I'm working through the ideas in this series publicly, a chapter at a time, over on LinkedIn. Not as marketing, but as a way of testing the argument against people who are actually living it.
Every post appears on my profile first — that's the easiest place to find them all.
How to take part
Your comment might end up in Book Two.
That isn't a figure of speech. Some of the strongest material in this series started as a reply from a manager who said “that's not quite how it works where I am.”
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Connect or follow
Everything goes out on my LinkedIn profile first, posts, longer articles, and the occasional half-formed idea I'm still arguing with myself about.
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Comment on what lands
Or on what doesn't. Tell me where the argument breaks in your organisation, what you'd add, and what you've tried that worked better. I read and reply to everything.
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Watch it show up
The best examples, objections and counter-cases get worked into the books and credited where you're happy to be. Books Two and Three are still being shaped by this.
Generative cultures move bad news towards the light. If the argument in these books is wrong somewhere, I'd far rather hear it in a comment than after it's printed.
What the series covers
Book One, a chapter at a time.
The posts follow the shape of Lead What You Can't Outrun. New ones go up regularly and the full set lives on my profile. You don't need to read them in order (but it helps if you do!) and you don't need to read them at all, because the book itself is free.
It's Not Effort. It's Attention.
Your team's real constraint isn't how hard they work. It's where their attention goes — and how often you fragment it.
You'll Never Keep Up (and That's Fine)
Curate the noise instead of forwarding it. Finishing beats starting, and closure is what protects focus.
Judgement Just Got Expensive
When output becomes cheap and abundant, the scarce capability is the human who can tell good from merely plausible.
Trust Is the Real Unlock
Adoption dies in the trust gap, not the capability gap. A racing car's brakes don't exist to make it slow — they're what let it commit to the corner.
Your People Are Ready. Your Organisation Isn't.
The gap between willing people and unready systems — and who is actually responsible for closing it.
Leading Humans and Agents
What changes when part of your team isn't a person — supervision, accountability and early-warning signals.
Hire and Grow Learners
When expertise depreciates in quarters, the thing you hire for is the capacity to keep learning.
A Pace You Can Sustain
You are the pacesetter, whether you mean to be or not. What your calendar quietly teaches your team.
Assess Your Team's Current State
Four stages of readiness, eight dimensions and an honest score. The Book One planner is already live.
The Operating System — A 90-Day Plan
Foundations before higher-order capability. What you actually do in weeks 1–2, 3–6 and 7–12.
The Leader as the Lever
Where Book One lands — and where Outlast and Build pick the argument up.