Insight on Leadership, Humanity & Inner Growth

PERSPECTIVES

Thoughts on navigating what the map doesn't show

On creativity, uncertainty, leadership and the art of thinking differently. Not answers but questions worth sitting with.

Seven articles tracing the full arc of the Inner Compass Method from the nature of creativity to the practice of navigation itself. Written for leaders, thinkers and anyone who has felt the map run out.

Each piece stands alone and together they tell a whole story.

The Compass Was Always There

The real challenge of our time is not learning how to predict the future, but to learn how to navigate when certainty disappears. The map may run out, but the inner compass was always there.

May 103 min read

What the Terrain Knows, That Maps Miss

By increasingly outsourcing our attention to technology, we are becoming less aware of our environment. We stop using our senses and begin to lose the capacity to see through complexities, discover patterns and experience the terrain as it unfolds.

Apr 273 min read

Two Kinds of Knowing

Navigating complex situations with logic and analysis alone is rarely enough. Better thinking often depends on something more subtle. It depends on the balance of two ways of thinking.

Apr 233 min read

The Art of Not Knowing

The pressure to resolve ambiguity is deeply ingrained in professional life. Teams are rewarded for decisive action. But what is the cost of closing too soon?

Apr 133 min read

Borrowed Maps and the Stories We Follow

When we find ourselves in uncertain terrain instinctively we look for a map, preferably one drawn by someone who seems to know the way. But every map is also a story. A story about how the world works.

Apr 93 min read

When the Map Runs Out

We treat uncertainty as a temporary disruption, something to analyse and resolve. Increasingly it seems that uncertainty is not the interruption. It is the terrain.

Apr 53 min read