In 2010, I encountered a question that has stayed with me ever since. Why do good companies go bad? That year, we hosted Professor Donald Sull at a conference in South Africa. Don had written a book titled Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them.

Most leadership programmes stop at the Executive Team. That's understandable. If the Executive Team becomes more aligned, surely the rest of the organisation will follow.

Thirty five years ago a quietly spoken Shangaan tracker invited me to follow a white rhino. I had no idea how far that lesson would travel. After finishing university I went to work at the Sabi Sabi Game Reserve.

Last week I fulfilled a long-held dream. I visited the home of Charles Darwin. I went for one main reason... to walk his 'thinking path.' Like many people, I had heard a great deal about Darwin, yet knew remarkably little about the man himself.

We’ve worked with executive and operational teams around the world for more than 15 years now. Across industries. Across cultures. Across leadership teams. Recently, we paused to look back at the data.

There's no blog post as usual this month. It’s because as you read this, I’m somewhere between Everest Base Camp and Cho La Pass in the Himalayan Mountain Range. My family and I are on an adventure in one of the most awe inspiring landscapes on earth.