Reflections & journey

Experience doesn’t always produce good judgement, reflection does.

I’m not offering advice in this section, just reflecting in public. Warts and all. A bit rough, unpolished, perhaps unfinished, not fully formed.

I’ve found value in stepping back — thinking about leadership, systems, failure, responsibility, obligation, and what experience teaches over time. I have the privilege of choice. I can take the quiet life that, quite reasonably, many do. I feel it would not fit well with me.

Life in the military was a great foundation in everything! Leaving me with great experiences, good stories that I tend not to tell, but of which I am often asked. Running a company was the hardest thing I have done, except perhaps for leaving it behind. Founders, start-ups and small business is adventure for few hardy souls, and their story often misunderstood.

My superpower was in getting things done: the urgent and the unusual, time and operationally critical. From public services, through startup and multinationals, to international engagement, with a strong dose of education thrown in. Every experience a lesson. Too many to list, too important to lose.

I have the privilege of choice, and I choose to contribute.

These pages will be an eclectic journey of reflections, observations and musings following a personal arc of interests and experience. Lesson on leadership and responsibility, ethics and obligation, the journey as it unfolded and continues to unfold. An insight into the activities that interest me and might even be of interest to some of you.

The next journey should be simple, but it is turning into a different sort of adventure. You welcome to join me.

  • Why I’m doing this now

    After stepping away from running a business, I found the hardest part wasn’t the work, it was letting go of the identity that came with it. These are some thoughts on that journey, still at its beginning.

  • Why I left Kiah, and other answers

    It has been almost three months since I cleaned out my office at Kiah. I am often asked if I have really left or is it a façade and am I still pulling the strings, and if I have left, why? In short, I have left Kiah and am no longer involved in its operations and direction. I do provide advice, having some experience, and I deliver some consulting and training support for continuity because I know stuff. I am funding the transition to minority or zero ownership. Leaving completely takes time, but I am not pulling the strings. My…