Art · Essays
Negative Space: What the Book Leaves Unsaid About Power
2025-12-01
An essay on the book's use of negative space in visual art as a way of talking about what leaders deliberately choose not to do.
Discovering Leadership
Michelangelo's Creation of Adam reaches through a prism that disperses light into a spectrum of eight leadership qualities: Vision, Courage, Integrity, Empathy, Judgement, Discipline, Humility and Balance — carried by a Möbius strip reading Discovering Leadership.
Ideas Without Boundaries
Exploring leadership through art, music, architecture, history and human behaviour.
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Into the Light
On painters who worked from a dark ground toward light — beginning with Leonardo da Vinci's toned ground — and what their choices about illumination, ambiguity and restraint can teach us about leading people.
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Science · Essays
Entropy and the Leader Who Refuses to Tidy Up
2025-11-17
A look at how the book borrows the second law of thermodynamics to argue that good leadership sometimes means letting disorder do its work.
Art · Essays
The Brushstroke and the Boardroom
2025-11-03
On why Discovering Leadership turns to painting, not management theory, to explain how leaders actually make decisions under uncertainty.