Our perspective papers take the questions boards and chief executives bring us and answer them in the open, with the same candour we bring to the room.
Written for the chief executive who has already read the consensus and knows it is not enough.
Why leadership capacity, not strategy, now decides performance in the AI era. Strategy, capital and technology all copy at speed; the leadership to carry people through change does not. This paper sets out where the constraint now sits and what to do about it.
How institutions build leadership that converts into impact that endures. Leadership is an asset class: it can be assessed, built deliberately, and squandered quietly. This paper explores how strong institutions treat it as capital: measured, invested in, and protected.
Bench strength, readiness, and the cost of an empty chair. Every institution eventually faces the empty chair. This paper examines what readiness actually looks like and how boards build a bench before they need one, not after.