Work is crazy. Make it beautiful.
the operating system of the world's greatest teams
Everything here starts from one question. What does good look like in the world's greatest teams, in sport and in business? The answer keeps coming back to the way the team works, the operating system underneath the talent. That system can be learned. Decoding it is what I do. My subject is the team that reaches the top and changes its society for the better.
I write, speak and build on one long study of the world's greatest teams. I've been at it since 1997, inside corporates, start-ups and public institutions.
A working day that takes your team through the book’s method, one layer at a time. One team, one room, one day, and a plan the team owns by five o’clock.
Two books, one study of what good looks like. Character Insights (2022) decoded the leader. Stacked (2026) decodes the team.
Talks that bring the evidence to your stage, every claim carrying its source. The flagship brings the new book’s thesis to your room.
Stacked, the keynote
What the back-to-back world champions can teach your people about lasting results.
The story starts at 57-0 and ends with two World Cups. The talk decodes the system that got them there, and hands your room its first moves for Monday morning.
Stacked
A New Operating System inspired by the Back-to-Back World Cup Rugby Champions
Out now. It decodes how the world's most successful rugby team builds an organisation, a team and a career that keep winning, and changes a country while they do it.
OPENING SOON
"While many will see it as a book about rugby, I see it as a blueprint for building organisations, teams and careers that thrive in an increasingly complex world."
A free check on how work is working, opening soon. It shows you where your way of working is weakest, which is the best place to start. Under ten minutes, on your phone.
THE LETTER
Stacked, weekly
A short weekly letter on what good looks like in the world’s greatest teams, with one small brave thing at the end.
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