Pages that survive the applause.
Books, essays and research that keep shaping choices once the audience has dispersed — the evidence beneath the keynotes, written to be argued with.
The Deciding Room
Judgement under pressure, under the microscope. Twenty years of boardroom observation distilled into nine chapters: how senior groups actually reach verdicts, where the hours leak out, and which habits endure when crisis strikes.
Out since 2024 · 288 pages · available through every bookseller. Bulk orders for boards and cohorts come with a facilitated discussion guide.
A Field Guide to Better Boards
Forty-one routines for the chair’s desk drawer. Tight, unsentimental chapters on agendas that function, dissent managed properly, minutes that remember, and the questions that keep a board alert.
Out since 2021 · 196 pages · currently in its third printing. Many readers hand every director a copy and argue over one chapter a month.
Short pieces with pointed endings
Trust as Infrastructure
The argument for handling assurance as serviced kit rather than atmosphere — check-ups included.
Decision Latency in Large Organisations
A quantified look at where decision hours really vanish, drawn from sixty-eight organisations in six sectors.
Board Attention at a Development Bank
A dispatch from the field on aiming board energy where the mandate sprawls widest and interested parties crowd thickest.
A monthly email. Zero filler.
One talk, one finding, or one row I’m still having with myself — sent on the first Tuesday of each month to thousands of chairs, directors and operators.
Read by people paid to make calls. A single click to depart, and the back catalogue remains yours.
A copy waiting on every chair
Many clients pair a keynote with The Deciding Room per delegate — signed, plus a discussion guide for the team’s next offsite.
- Signed copies and bulk pricing on request.
- Discussion guide written for boardrooms, not book clubs.
- Shipping coordinated straight with your events team.
