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Essays from Chris McLaren on the capability gap between what leaders face and what they’re equipped for, drawn from decades at the intersection of technology, strategy and leadership.
6 March 2026
When one person with deep domain knowledge can build a working product in days for almost nothing, the entire logic of software inverts.
25 February 2026
For 300,000 years, innovation moved slower than a lifetime. For 200 years, it matched one. Now it moves faster than most can comprehend.
16 February 2026
The gap that matters is not between individuals who use AI and those who do not. It is at the business level. And it is forming right now.
12 February 2026
The actual problem is not AI capability. It is the disparity between what these systems can accomplish and what leaders are equipped to do with them.
27 January 2026
Why Sundays quietly shape your leadership, and how a short pause and a deliberate decision can transform how you enter the week.
30 October 2025
Leadership is not a flat line. It has length, height and width. Each dimension builds a different kind of capability.
28 July 2025
Harvard researchers found minds wander 47% of the time. For leaders, that is not just an unhappy mind. It is a distracted, reactive and often careless one.
30 June 2025
Traditional leadership skills are insufficient for this landscape. Nine critical capabilities define what future-ready leaders need to build.
27 June 2025
Digital is not a destination. It is a way of being, thinking and operating. It is time to stop treating it as a project.
28 May 2025
In 1956, a group of brilliant minds believed AI could be solved over a ten-week summer project. Nearly 70 years later, we have entered what many are calling AI's endless summer.
22 May 2025
After years of coaching professionals across industries, one pattern keeps emerging. The most practical leadership capabilities often start with the same letter.
21 May 2025
By some reports, 3 out of every 4 business change initiatives fail. Here are the five most common reasons.
9 May 2025
The best organisations do not just grow. They accelerate by aligning their people, processes and decisions to drive superior results.
8 May 2025
Mental models serve as frameworks for understanding the world through simplified representations of reality. They enable leaders to navigate complex situations.