The Books — Discovering Leadership
Two books, one enduring question — read through art, science, music, architecture, history and human behaviour.
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The Art, the Science and the Essence of Leadership
Timeless disciplines with one enduring purpose: leadership that leaves a lasting legacy.
The first book sets out the book's central wager: that leadership is better understood through the metaphors of art and science than through the vocabulary of competition and command. Each chapter takes a single image — a brushstroke, negative space, entropy, emergence — and follows it until it becomes a way of noticing something true about how people actually lead. This site exists to think alongside that book, essay by essay, rather than to sell it.
ISBN 978-1-0669414-0-7
View on AmazonPublished 23 Sept 2026
The Dark Side of the Moon: Leadership Liabilities
When leadership strengths become liabilities.
The second book is now published, extending the same method into new territory. Where the first book asked what leaders could learn from the studio and the laboratory, the sequel turns the prism around to watch the same qualities refract into ego, hubris, control, denial, dissonance, distortion, corruption and betrayal. Essays on it begin appearing here in the immediate future.
ISBN 978-1-0669414-2-1
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