In The press

Designed Informality: Reclaiming the Oxygen of Work

The European Business Review, November 2025

Most of what really happens in organisations — the ideas, the insights, the bonds of trust — lives in the informal organisation, not in the charts and reporting lines. Yet management has long struggled with what it cannot control or measure. The time has come to design for informality — not to formalise it, but to make space for it to thrive. Because without it, the organisation runs out of oxygen.

The 9 Lives of Culture

Strategic Magazine Column, November 2025

Culture has been declared dead more times than we can count. Each decade brings its own assassin — strategy, process, leadership, engagement, agility, purpose, wellbeing, now AI. Yet it survives every attempt, reborn under a new name. Join me for a short journey through the nine lives of culture — and the tenth one that never dies: the informal web of relationships where real life happens.