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Strategy is Not a Backlog
In many organisations, strategy has lost its way. It’s been reduced to a budgeting exercise — a list of projects, initiatives, or key priorities vaguely tied to ambition but completely detached from strategic logic. This transformation from intent to task leaves delivery teams overwhelmed and disconnected, working through endless backlogs without a clear sense of purpose.
But strategy isn’t just a shopping list of work to be done. It’s a singular, integrated set of choices.

Darren Emery
7 min read


Confessions of an agile obsessive!
I have a problem. It’s quite serious and it affects me everyday. I can’t seem to watch a TV programme without trying to find some...

Abbas Dhanani
3 min read


Why You Can’t Scale Delivery Without Focused Leadership
Your organisation can’t move faster than your leadership’s ability to focus. While most execs chase headcount, tools, or structure, the real constraint is attention. This article explores why executive focus - not effort - is the hidden bottleneck in enterprise transformation, and how to reclaim it as your organisation’s most strategic asset.

Darren Emery
4 min read


The Evolution of SCRUM MASTERS:
How the Scrum Master role is evolving in the modern enterprise and how your organisation can be first mover to take advantage

Darren Emery
3 min read


OKRs for Leadership
Over the past twenty years the corporate world has seen significant change influenced by digital technology which has revolutionised the...

Darren Emery
3 min read


Outcomes Over Outputs - 10 Steps to Becoming an Outcome Focussed Org
We set Sales teams quota targets, but we don’t tell them they need to close a specific deal on a specific day. We ask marketing teams to...

Darren Emery
4 min read


Why Leaders Don’t Care About Culture
I was reading an article the other day from one of the big consultancy firms about organisational culture and why cultural change efforts...

Darren Emery
3 min read


Your Strategy Sucks: 3 Ways to Fix It
Here’s a stat for you: 5% of employees are aware of and/or understand their company’s strategy. Or an even better one: 71% of employees...

Darren Emery
2 min read


Want Productivity? Build a Culture of Trust
FACT: Higher Trust = Higher Productivity and more engagement. But how do you create a culture of trust in your organisation? ..... I was...

Darren Emery
2 min read


Social Conformity Leadership and Cultural Change
I recently saw a video on social conformity that caught my eye, a modern take of the classic psychology experiment by Asch (1951). The...

Abbas Dhanani
2 min read
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