Bookish Things
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Future-proofing your business
In 2026, it should be an already established and widely understood fact in European boardrooms that board simulations are key to future-proofing oneβs business.
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Corporate governance in the age of geopolitics
A new operating landscape is here. If there are corporate boards that have not, as of spring 2026, recognized that geopolitics and geoeconomics have entered the boardroom and are completely overhauling the interiors, they may already be costing shareholders far more value than they create.
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Need for future-relevant governance
We are in uncharted spaces where technology-enabled micro-entrepreneurship will become the engine of economic growth. These micro-enterprises, with sizeable valuations, will require new, future-relevant governance.
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The Instagram Live
ππ’π― π°π―π¦ πΈπ³πͺπ΅π¦ π’ π£π°π°π¬ π’π£π°πΆπ΅ ππ―π€π©π’π³π΅π¦π₯ ππ±π’π€π¦π΄ πΈπͺπ΅π©π°πΆπ΅ π€π©π’π³π΅πͺπ―π¨ π΄πΆπ€π© π΄π±π’π€π¦π΄ π°π―π¦π΄π¦ππ§? Possibly not. With plenty of virtual speaking in my back-pocket, I did my first-ever Instagram Live to kick off book launch day. Between the UK and Australia. Another uncharted space, charted.
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The Podcast
ππ’π― π°π―π¦ πΈπ³πͺπ΅π¦ π’ π£π°π°π¬ π’π£π°πΆπ΅ ππ―π€π©π’π³π΅π¦π₯ ππ±π’π€π¦π΄ πΈπͺπ΅π©π°πΆπ΅ π€π©π’π³π΅πͺπ―π¨ π΄πΆπ€π© π΄π±π’π€π¦π΄ π°π―π¦π΄π¦ππ§? Possibly not. I chose to overcome my preference for written text, and listen to Joe Rogan’s podcast featuring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Another uncharted space, charted.
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Keep on walking
The theme for 2026: movement. Befits the year – the year of the horse that starts in February 2026 – when Uncharted Spaces the book takes wings and lands in bookstores and on your shelves
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The Playlist
ππ’π― π°π―π¦ πΈπ³πͺπ΅π¦ π’ π£π°π°π¬ π’π£π°πΆπ΅ ππ―π€π©π’π³π΅π¦π₯ ππ±π’π€π¦π΄ πΈπͺπ΅π©π°πΆπ΅ π€π©π’π³π΅πͺπ―π¨ π΄πΆπ€π© π΄π±π’π€π¦π΄ π°π―π¦π΄π¦ππ§? Possibly not. Resuming listening to music this year I consciously moved away from focusing on lyrics, to the visceral quality of tune and beat. The result was quite an unusual Spotify list.
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Feeling like Cassandra
As we navigate much uncertainty and complexity in these Uncharted Spaces, ensuring organisational resilience requires vigilance. And the right kind of annoying questions from boards.
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Between the human and her computer
This liminal space, where machines are becoming ubiquitous in our lives but where our human OS has not changed sufficiently for us to not react emotionally to the machine’s “behaviour”, is a kind of Uncharted Spaces we are navigating together.