Welcome to this week's round-up. We've covered some fascinating territory around resilience, adaptation, and sustainable leadership - from designing communication systems that actually work to transforming regulatory requirements into strategic opportunities.
Whether you're managing distributed teams, navigating personal setbacks, or wrestling with sustainability compliance, this week's articles provide practical frameworks for building stronger, more authentic leadership practices.
Here's what we explored:
This Week's Articles
Published Monday, 16 June
Remote communication often defaults to either over-communication (endless meetings) or under-communication (isolation and misalignment). This piece reveals how to design communication architecture that balances efficiency with human connection, including the "default to async principle" and recognising when messages need voice.
Published Wednesday, 18 June
A deeply personal exploration of how losing everything - marriage, home, job, and nearly life itself in a car crash - became the foundation for the most authentic chapter yet. Honest reflection on what total collapse teaches about capability, resilience, and the strength that emerges when comfort is stripped away.
Published Friday, 20 June
While COP29 disappointed, EU regulatory frameworks might drive the environmental transformation that climate summits struggle to deliver. This article unpacks what "double materiality" actually means and why most organisations miss the strategic opportunity by treating CSRD compliance as checkbox exercise rather than competitive advantage.
From the Archive
Originally published April 2025
With this week's focus on resilience and honest leadership, this piece deserves another look. Most leaders focus on obvious burnout indicators, but dramatic symptoms appear months after real warning signs emerge. Learn to spot burnout hiding behind successful delivery metrics and team dynamics that seem perfectly normal.
The thread connecting this week's content is the courage to look honestly at what's really happening in our teams, in ourselves, and in our business environment.
Whether it's designing communication systems that acknowledge human needs, facing personal reconstruction with authenticity, or seeing regulatory compliance as strategic opportunity, the strongest leaders are those who engage with reality rather than managing appearances.Have a nice weekend.Tom
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