Niall Anderson · 28 September 2026 · 5 min read
Traditional strategy consultancies love to sell a beautiful, static blueprint, hand it over, and call it 100% of the value. But real, sustainable impact cannot be imposed from the outside - it has to be co-created. In…
Gary Gamp · 24 September 2026 · 4 min read
For the fifth lesson in our 10 Lessons for 10 Years series, Sophie Pentony sat down with our CXO, Gary Gamp, to discuss why managing expectations isn't a corporate cliché - it's the foundation of accountability. Because…
Chris Carlisle · 1 September 2026 · 5 min read
Every struggling organisation has one thing in common: sooner or later, the senior leadership team becomes involved in everything. Every escalation lands on their desk. Every difficult customer ends up in their diary. E…
Gary Gamp · 30 July 2026 · 4 min read
Enterprise transformation frequently suffers from a metrics problem. Progress is too often measured by the volume of tasks completed rather than the actual commercial value delivered. This creates an environment where p…
Gareth Greppellini · 8 June 2026 · 4 min read
Over the last 12 months, the smart/tasking team has seen the real cost of delayed decision making. Leadership teams can lose millions in margin, not because they lack strategy, but because they delay difficult operation…
Niall Anderson · 4 June 2026 · 3 min read
Over a 40-year career navigating the journey from an apprentice to various board-level positions, I have seen the same costly script play out dozens of times. A senior leadership team identifies a massive opportunity fo…
smart/tasking · 2 December 2025 · 4 min read
Everyone feels tired in December, yes, but leaders feel it differently. As well as managing their own workload, they’re absorbing the fragmentation of everyone else’s. They’re the ones bridging gaps, smoothing issues, r…
smart/tasking · 5 November 2025 · 3 min read
Why so many change plans fail and how to finally make yours last. The story behind stalled change Picture this. Your organisation announces a bold new change strategy, new processes, new systems, maybe even a new missio…
Jeannie Ivanov · 15 September 2025 · 3 min read
As I progressed through my career and found myself in an increasing number of board room conversations, I noticed a common narrative during people related discussions: the perception that niceness was a career limiting…
smart/tasking · 18 August 2025 · 3 min read
Inspired by PwC’s Business model reinvention pressure index We came across PwC’s insightful global analysis - tracking six key indicators - that shows reinvention pressure is at a 25‑year high, yet only 82% of leade…
