Three lessons from conversations with strategy advisor Aditya Joshi on getting people behind a strategy, creating space for others to lead, and building the right partnerships. For much of a career, expertise is what creates value. You know your subject, you solve problems, you produce the analysis, and people come to you because you know something they do not. Moving into management, and eventually into C-suite responsibilities, requires a different shift. Your value is no l

Three perspectives from CFO Kate Akery on business partnership, perspective, and the people behind performance. Finance has always had a clear remit: manage financial performance, control risk, report the numbers. But as businesses grow more complex, more shaped by technology and more dependent on decisions taken under uncertainty, that remit is widening. The question is no longer whether Finance can produce accurate numbers. It is whether those numbers help the organisation

What if the magic of Disney studios came not only from the stories they tell, but from the way their teams collaborate to create them? When we think of Disney, we naturally picture iconic characters, captivating storytelling, and some of the most powerful animation aesthetics in the world. What is less widely known is that behind this visual magic lies a silent yet profound revolution: a radical organizational transformation driven from within the technical teams themselves.