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The strategic execution gap: Why most senior leaders are busy being unproductive
Key Insight: How to close the strategic execution gap According to Larysa Hale, the strategic execution gap occurs when senior leaders prioritise urgent operational tasks over high-value strategic thinking. While McKinsey (January 2025) reports that 88% of...
AI myth-busting series
The danger of autopilot: why human judgment still matters in an AI workflow
One of the biggest risks with Artificial Intelligence is not that it exists. It is that people start treating it as though it no longer needs supervision. That mindset is not unique to AI. It appears in ordinary business processes all the time. A team builds a...
Stop tool-hopping: why workflow matters more than the model
Many organisations have slipped into a peculiar form of AI paralysis. They are active enough to feel modern, but not disciplined enough to create value. One week the team is testing ChatGPT. The next, it is Claude. Then Gemini. Then a niche specialist tool that...
Prompting is not technical — it is management
Prompting is often misunderstood as a technical skill, which leaves many capable, high-achieving professionals sitting on the sidelines of the AI shift because they believe they are “not technical enough” to take part. They hear phrases like prompt engineering and...
Beyond summaries: where AI creates real value for senior leaders
A great many businesses are using an extraordinarily powerful technology for very small jobs. They summarise meeting notes. They tidy emails. They rewrite a paragraph. They ask AI to produce a slightly cleaner version of what was already on the page. None of that is...
Why AI is making your team busier — and what senior leaders should fix first
When Artificial Intelligence first entered the mainstream, many leaders expected the usual promise: faster execution, lighter workloads and a welcome reduction in the daily clutter of work. Instead, quite a few managing directors and senior teams are finding...
How to get more consistent results from AI
One of the most common complaints managing directors make about AI is inconsistency. They use it for a task on Monday and get something sharp, useful and commercially on-point. They return on Tuesday, ask for something similar, and receive an answer that is fluffy,...
How to give AI the business context it needs: three steps
A common frustration among senior leaders is that AI advice often sounds fluent but feels generic. You ask for strategic input, a sales angle or a growth recommendation, and what comes back is tidy, sensible and completely disconnected from the commercial reality of...
The real risk of AI hallucinations in business — and why accountability still sits with leadership
One of the biggest reasons senior leaders hesitate over AI is not cost, complexity or even change management. It is the fear of being wrong. That fear is not irrational. We have all seen the cautionary stories: AI-generated legal arguments citing cases that do not...
How to make AI sound more like your brand — without the robotic aftertaste
How to make AI sound more like your brand? It is one of the biggest challenges senior leaders face when using AI for content. The issue is not always that it writes badly. In fact, that is often the problem. The grammar is clean, the structure is competent, and the...
All about marketing
Why your firm could be invisible to AI-powered search — and what to do about it
AI-powered search is fundamentally reshaping how clients discover professional services firms — and most organisations are not even aware they’ve already fallen behind. Increasingly, decision-makers are skipping Google, skipping blogs, skipping websites altogether....
Marketing strategies for 2026: the questions clients are asking me — and the answers they actually need
Over the past few months, clients have been coming to me with the same urgent questions — and, interestingly, all of them point toward a deeper concern about their marketing strategies for 2026. These aren’t casual queries. They’re signals. And they say more about the...
B2B email marketing in 2025: what’s working and what’s wishful thinking
Let’s be honest: B2B email marketing has suffered from a bad reputation. Blame the cold, generic newsletters no one asked for, the “Hi [First Name]” personalisation that fools no one, or the spray-and-pray approach to lists built in 2012 and never cleaned. But here...
Collaborative articles
Explore a wealth of perspectives as industry professionals answer pressing questions in our collaborative articles. Dive into expert opinions, practical advice, and innovative solutions, all curated to provide actionable insights and inspire success in your business journey.
The Visibility Gap – What’s Really Holding B2B Experts Back in 2025
In early 2025, LinkedIn quietly changed its algorithm again. The result? Organic reach for long-form thought leadership posts dropped by 37% across several industries. A week later, Google announced it would be prioritising “experience-based content” over AI-generated...
From website to workhorse: How B2B experts are turning their sites into sales engines
Let’s face it — most B2B websites aren’t pulling their weight.They look the part, tick the basic boxes, and might even get compliments for their design… but when it comes to actually winning business, they fall short. You’ve invested time and money into your site,...
Collaborative article: The B2B Email Reset — Told by the Experts Who Made It Happen
In 2025, the B2B email landscape is undergoing a quiet revolution. Once ruled by batch-and-blast tactics and bulging contact lists, today’s winning strategies are built on relevance, responsiveness, and respect for the inbox. With inboxes oversaturated and GDPR-like...