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

From the CLARITY Insider series by Peter J. McLean — practical insights for leaders, organisers, and keynote sponsors. One of the most important things you can do as an event sponsor is to decide what outcome you want from a Keynote. Do you want your audience to be challenged , to make sense of everything they’ve heard, to be motivated to act, inspired , encouraged —or even intentionally made uncomfortable so they think differently? What do you actually want them to do when

It's easy to criticise the leader or senior leader - until you're the one in that position. Then suddenly you realise all of the pressures that were on them in the past. But that doesn't excuse the previous leader from having been rotten or managing poorly. Nor does it excuse you. It's a challenge to you: How will you proceed? Will you adopt the same manner and problems or will you change direction and do things differently? You will make mistakes. That comes with the territo

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:

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...

Peter McLean Keynote Speaker based in Australia speaks with David Turner at Turner Speaks Watch my latest video - an interview about...