What Sun Tzu Can Teach Modern Business Leaders About Strategy, Intelligence and Survival More than two thousand years after Sun Tzu examined the principles of warfare, his thinking continues to provide useful lessons for corporate leadership. In an increasingly competitive world, understanding strategy, protecting commercial relationships, and anticipating threats may... View Article
A corporation can spend decades building its reputation, investing millions in governance, quality, customer relationships and public trust. Yet, someone holding a smartphone, commanding millions of followers, and operating beyond the organisation’s direct control can compromise that reputation. Welcome to the age of reputational contagion. Social media has unleashed a... View Article
I didn’t stop informing myself. I stopped allowing a 24-hour information cycle to decide what deserved my attention. Some of my earliest memories of news involve a bathroom, several blankets, a cup of coffee, and a small transistor radio. I grew up in communist Yugoslavia. My father was a committed... View Article
The real value of an interview begins before the microphone is switched on and continues long after it is switched off. Introduction There is a moment I have witnessed many times in a podcast studio. The interview finishes. The microphones are switched off. Photographs are taken. Hands are shaken. The... View Article
We treat texts, emails and private messages like disposable conversation. Investigators, lawyers, employers—and sometimes criminals—may see something very different: a record of what we said, promised, threatened or admitted. You do not necessarily need to be secretly recorded anymore. You are recording yourself. Every angry text message. Every late-night WhatsApp... View Article
How innocent conversations abroad can become the first step towards elicitation, compromise and intelligence recruitment. Boarding Time The setting does not look dangerous. A five-star resort. A recovery spa. Warm weather. People are sitting besides a swimming pool with their phones placed on the table. Executives have temporarily escaped their... View Article
After 21 days of training in Thailand, I expected to leave knowing more about fitness. Instead, the final seven days taught me something far more useful about injury, pressure, courage, purpose, consistency, discipline — and the identity we quietly build through our choices. By the final week in Thailand, I... View Article
There is something slightly ridiculous about travelling thousands of kilometres to one of the world’s most beautiful holiday destinations and then deliberately making your days harder. I’m in Phuket, Thailand. Outside my room there is everything you would expect from a place people travel across the world to enjoy: tropical... View Article
There is something slightly ridiculous about travelling thousands of kilometres to one of the world’s most beautiful holiday destinations and then deliberately making your days harder. I’m in Phuket, Thailand. Outside my room there is everything you would expect from a place people travel across the world to enjoy: tropical... View Article
My 21-Day Battle Plan Last night, on my fourth day in Thailand, I found myself in a situation that my 21-day training plan did not prepare me for. I was vomiting, feeling terrible and quickly realising that I had most likely picked up food poisoning. Anyone who has experienced it... View Article