It Wouldn’t Be Cheap And It Would Some In Bottles

What would happen if petrol were introduced today through the logic of modern neoliberal retail markets? This article begins with an absurd image: bottles of premium petrol sitting on supermarket shelves beside sparkling water and soft drinks. From that starting point, it follows the economic machinery that would inevitably grow around such a product, including startup culture, venture capital, patents, regulatory frameworks, academic resear...

If Neoliberal Markets Sold Petrol

Why Raw Power Often Misreads the Struggle

What can a Christmas comedy teach us about power? Using the familiar story of Home Alone, this article explores a deeper question that has occupied thinkers for centuries: what power actually is and how it operates in an asymmetric world. At first glance, the situation in the film appears straightforward. Two adult intruders confront a child who has been left alone. From a purely arithmetic perspective, the outcome seems predictable. Yet as the story ...

The Home Alone Principle

A Practical Case Study in Observer Capacity

This article presents a practical case study demonstrating how the Observer Capacity Exposure Model (OCEM) can be applied to understand large-scale societal crises. It builds on the concepts introduced in the earlier article “The Weight of Truth: Why Exposure Does Not Guarantee Recognition: Observer Capacity and the Dynamics of Seeing” and shows how those ideas can be used in practice to interpret complex real-world situations.

The earlier ar...

When Societies Drift Toward War

Why Exposure Does Not Guarantee Recognition: Observer Capacity and the Dynamics of Seeing

This article explores how ‘truth’ becomes visible in human systems and why recognition of reality so often fails even when signals are present. Drawing on several conceptual models developed by the author, including the Expanded Exposure Probability Model, the Exposure Triangle, and the framework of Authentic Awareness, the article examines the dynamic relationship between exposure and recognition. I...

The Weight of ‘Truth’

When Audacity Replaces Competence, Vulgarity Replaces Dignity, Ideology Replaces Thinking and Hubris Turns Leadership into Spectacle

Why do human societies sometimes elevate the most volatile personalities to positions of leadership, while even wolf packs appear to know better? This article explores a peculiar phenomenon in modern public life: the rise of what the author calls the lumpen leader. Drawing on examples from nature, psychology and political culture, it examines how spectacle can b...

The Lumpen Leader

When Inauthenticity and a Distorted Relationship with Vulnerability Corner Us Against Reality

Public life often rewards confidence, certainty and the projection of strength. Yet many of the crises that emerge in leadership, organisations and political systems do not begin with external defeat. They begin when individuals and institutions drift away from an authentic relationship with reality. Exaggerated claims, carefully managed optics, strategic bluffing and the performance of competence ca...

Checkmate

Why Leadership is Not About Controlling Systems But Influencing the Transitions That Move Them Toward Integrity

Public discourse often interprets conflict and crisis through simplified moral binaries such as good versus evil or heroes versus villains. While wrongdoing and victimhood are real, such narratives frequently obscure the deeper dynamics through which events actually unfold. Complex systems rarely move according to a single cause or actor. Aggression may trigger conflict, yet silence...

Beyond Good and Evil: Active Modulation

How Degraded Being and Distorted Sense-Making Turn Tragedy into Spectacle

Across today’s geopolitical landscape, a disturbing tone has begun to emerge. Political assassinations are sometimes met with celebration. Leaders publicly ridicule and insult opponents. Regimes justify the killing of civilians while claiming moral legitimacy. Wars are increasingly narrated as symbolic victories in ideological contests rather than tragic events involving human lives.

Yet the phenomenon unfolding be...

The Ontology of Vulgarity

On Care, Capacity and the Discipline of Not Stepping Into Everything

We live in a time where everyone feels compelled to care about everything. Every crisis demands a reaction, every conflict requires a position, and every issue appears to deserve our attention. But what if this constant impulse to step into everything is not a sign of responsibility, but a symptom of confusion?

This article challenges a widely accepted assumption: that broader concern automatically reflects deeper care. D...

If Everything Is Your Priority, You Have No Priority

How Generalisations, Misread Statistics and Simplified Narratives Distort Sense-Making and Shape the Decisions That Govern Our Societies

Public discourse increasingly relies on simplified categories to interpret complex social realities. Groups are often described as if they were coherent and unified actors. Religious communities, political orientations, cultural populations, or demographic identities are frequently treated as monolithic entities. These generalisations appear harmless as ling...

The Monolith Illusion

Arrogance, Supremacy, Authenticity and Distorted Self-perception. Why Inauthenticities Eventually Collide With Reality and Reality Always Wins at the End.

Supremacy and hubris are often treated as moral failings. Pride is condemned as a vice and humility is prescribed as the corrective. Yet before arrogance becomes a moral problem, it is first a distortion in how individuals and systems relate to reality.

This article examines supremacy and arrogance as phenomena that emerge when the relat...

The Probability of Hubris

A Structural Model Explaining Why and How Inauthenticities Become Unstable as Interactions Accumulate

Inauthentic identities and narratives can survive for a time, but they rarely remain stable indefinitely. Whether in individuals, leaders, institutions, or nations, the gap between narrative and reality gradually produces consequences that accumulate across interactions. Over time, these consequences generate patterns that increase the likelihood that distortions will eventually be exposed.
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The Exposure Probability Model (EPM)

As an emerging leader with aspirations to climb the corporate ladder or transition to a more fulfilling career, do you believe you have to pretend to be someone you’re not to be accepted? Do you sometimes doubt yourself or feel unheard, unseen and undervalued? If so, you’re not alone. Putting on a fake persona in the workplace is more common than many people realise. However, there are significant costs in doing so. In this article, Jeanette Mundy explains why the adage that you have to ‘f...

Sick of changing who you are to fit in?

As a sales leader, be it an individual sales director, account manager, business development professional or sales manager, you are constantly interacting with and leading people, whether they are reporting to you or indirectly supporting you to win your next deal for the company. Empowering clients and supporting them with solutions to their problems always comes back to interpersonal relationships. And we all know what every relationship needs: trust. The question is, how can you build trust r...

Building trust in the sales relationship

Stepping into an account management or sales leadership role can be challenging, especially if your sales deals can take 12–24 months or longer to secure. Complexities show up throughout the purchasing cycle, from qualifying a new opportunity, engaging clients with presentations and sharing your solution’s capabilities to producing, presenting and negotiating a project contract to implement the solution. As a sales leader, how can you remain effective throughout such a lengthy process, espec...

4 factors that contributed to winning large & complex sales deals

You need to work on your business, not in your business. As a business owner, you’ve probably heard this line multiple times, be it from business advisors or well-meaning people trying to help. But does the thought of delegating some of the operational tasks you currently do yourself to make your business a success seem too far from your reach? In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic reveals seven steps to gradually remove yourself from your business' operational functions and e...

Get yourself out of your business' operations: The 7 steps

When we are at the receiving end of obstacles and unexpected detours, it’s easy to get stuck in the trap of victimhood. If you manage a team with members who are constantly locked in complaint mode and find it difficult to turn the situation around, team morale can be impacted, slowing productivity. In this article, Jacqueline Hofste, an ontological leadership coach with a background in senior leadership roles in the corporate environment and archetypal consulting, explains how and what we can...

Is your team stuck in Victimhood mentality

Modern society has provided an opportunity to redefine the traditional male and female roles that have been passed down from father to son and mother to daughter for millennia. However, rather than treat each other as humans and appoint the best person for the job, we seem to be caught up in the need to balance the power between the sexes, for example, by electing women just because there are too many men at the top. In this article, John Williams discusses why healthy masculinity is no threat t...

Why healthy masculinity is no threat to feminine empowerment, and “real men” are not afraid of women having power

It's easy to feel isolated, different, alone and excluded when dealing with a disbaility that impacts you 24/7. While some disabilities are visible because they are obvious, there are a vast number of hidden or invisible conditions that affect people's daily lives just as significantly. Many people choose to keep their hidden disability a secret, often not realising the toll that decision can take until things start spiralling out of control. In this article, Wayne Stickel, a wellbeing and effec...

The role of a community in supporting people with hidden disabilities to flourish

It is natural to want to understand why you are the way you are. But once you have that insight, what can you do about it if you discover areas that aren’t serving you? Traditional theories and approaches suggest that you learn how to manage your fixed traits or set short-term action plans to change certain habits or behaviours. In this article, Lucy Faulconer, General Manager – Being Profile®, a leadership coach and an organisational psychologist, reveals how she and many other coaches, le...

How the Being Profile facilitates our ability to transform

Many people like the idea of becoming a coach and dive in without considering why they want to pursue professional coaching and what it takes to create a successful coaching business. Many also don’t have an authentic understanding of what it means to be a professional coach. As General Manager of the Being Profile®, Lucy Faulconer leads a global community of coaches and has the opportunity to hear the stories behind why they chose to become a coach. In this article, she shares some of those ...

Are you thinking of becoming a coach?

Are you a business owner who feels overwhelmed and frustrated because you are constantly putting out fires? Is addressing whatever issue pops up on any given day preventing you from being the proactive, strategic and productive leader you want to be who is working towards achieving a clearly defined set of goals? If so, you are not alone. Anthea Stevanovic explains why this issue is so common and the steps she uses to successfully support her clients to elevate themselves from firefighters to fu...

Are you a firefighter or a business owner?

Most of us know somebody who is transactional in their relationships with others, whether it be someone at work, at home or in our social circle. It might even be you. Some might argue that being transactional is the only way to meet targets at work or protect yourself from being taken advantage of. In this article, leadership and confidence coach Helen Robinett explains why any relationship that focuses on getting rather than giving is toxic and how to build authentic, transformative relationsh...

From transactional to transformative: how to build authentic relationships

Being part of a sales organisation as a key account, customer engagement, or customer success manager can be challenging. It requires you to balance organisational, client and partner interests while constantly looking out for opportunities to solve problems for clients and secure the next deal to grow company revenue. One key challenge is identifying where to spend the most time and effort. Another is to determine for which of your customer’s problems your organisation’s solution is a match...

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