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

I was reminded the other day of The Challenger Shuttle disaster . January 28, 1986, the Challenger shuttle, loaded with the first...

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:

In leadership conversations, culture is often invoked as both the problem and the solution. It’s what’s blamed when things feel misaligned, and what’s celebrated when organisations thrive. But amid the urgency to change culture, one fundamental truth is often missed: