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Week 9: Visual Management in 2026: Most Boards ...

Visual Management in 2026: Most Boards Are Just Wallpaper I want you to do something right now. Walk to the nearest visual management board in your organisation. If you work...

Week 8: The Hockey Stick Strategy Is a Lie. Sto...

The Hockey Stick Strategy Is a Lie. Stop Falling For It. Every strategy deck I have ever seen has one. You know exactly what I am talking about. The graph...

Week 7: Why I Left Shell to Build Stormholt

Why I Left a 17-Year Shell Career to Build Stormholt People think I am crazy. Seventeen years at Shell. CI Deployment Manager across Malaysia, Aberdeen, and the UK. Part of...

Week 6: The Shopfloor Knows More Than the Board...

The Shopfloor Knows More Than the Boardroom. Always. I want to tell you about a single observation that saved $50 million. It was during a Gemba walk at a Shell...

The touring CI lead — why most global transform...

An analysis of five recent global CI job postings and the structural reason most of these roles deliver no measurable change. Continuous improvement does not survive a five-day site visit.

The hidden tool tax — why new CI practitioners ...

A field note on the invisible cost of letting every new continuous improvement hire rebuild templates from scratch — and what mature CI teams do instead.