THINKING
Notes on leadership, governance and complexity. Written to be useful, not to be optimised.
- 01Perspectives · 5 min read
Risk management is a leadership discipline. Not a register.
Most organisations have a risk register. Fewer have risk management. The difference is a leadership conversation, not a document.
- 02Perspectives · 5 min read
Resilience is not a plan. It is what happens when the plan fails.
Every organisation has a continuity plan. Most have never opened it under pressure. Resilience is what happens when the script runs out.
- 03Perspectives · 6 min read
The board's job with AI is not to understand the technology. It is to own the decision.
Somewhere in your organisation, someone is using an AI tool on company data without anyone having decided whether that is acceptable.
- 04Leadership Without Theatre · 6 min read
Compliance without theatre: GDPR, NIS2 and the difference between being certified and being safe
A certificate on the wall tells you very little about how safe an organisation is. The gap between the two is compliance theatre.
- 05Leadership Without Theatre · 5 min read
Diversity is a governance tool. Treat it like one.
A room that thinks alike decides alike. And a room that decides alike will eventually be wrong together, at scale.
- 06Perspectives · 6 min read
The CEO's first 100 days with cyber: own it without becoming the expert
Your job is not to understand the firewall. It is to make sure the company's exposure is known, owned and deliberately accepted.
- 07Leadership Without Theatre · 6 min read
Daring to lead differently: notes on feminist leadership in the boardroom, the C-suite and the client room
Leading differently is rarely one grand gesture. It is a set of habits you are willing to be seen doing.
The Archive
Frameworks, templates and research from House of Moon will be collected here.
In preparation