Peter McLean's Regular Newsletter on Leadership and Strategy Issue#16, December 2025 Happy end-of-year, Christmas, New Year and all of that to you all! SEEING THROUGH THE FOG OF WAR When you get in the middle of the action, with all kinds of insanity and chaos starting to happen: people coming at you from every direction, policy changing around you on the fly, tariffs or not-tariffs changing during the night, Head of HR resigning due to pregnancy, supply chains disrupted, cus

The "lonely at the top" feeling great leaders are supposed to have? Entirely self-inflicted. If you're leading people, you actually have no excuse to be lonely, because you should be sharing responsibility, vision, strategy, insight, needs, etc. And one thing you should always be doing is finding that sounding board of one or more trusted advisors with whom you can share and bounce ideas, perspectives, challenges, queries, hopes, dreams, road blocks and frustrations. Unfortun

Peter McLean video - Leadership Under Pressure

You've seen the news about how McKinsey is reducing their workforce because AI can do their slide decks. But organisations and leaders don’t need another slide deck. They need clarity. They need traction. They need someone invested in working with them to achieve success.

Strategy rarely fails suddenly with fireworks and explosions. It fades. It drifts. It becomes the oh-so eloquent term, “meh.” But great leaders - the kind that recalibrate systems, teams, and themselves - stop and ask a different question:

Strategy isn't about whether or not you use the "recommended" model or framework, whether that be Porter's 5 forces, Mckinsey's 7-S, the...

One of the great frustrations in business is the "pointless presentation," retreat, or development session. Just last week, someone...

If your staff or consultant says they've got the strategy "right" because of the model, they're wrong...