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Rohan Light

Rohan Light

I help the good build the worthwhile. Doing #progressive, thinking #resilience, learning #DataOps, reading #history, governing #data, loving #physics

My Pi-Spective on Authenticity

My Pi-Spective on Authenticity

(A pi-spective is where you write about something in 314 words) There's a lot of this word 'authenticity' going around in leadership circles at the moment. In management if something is worth doing, then someone will overdo it. There's an influential school of

A Business Decision is an Exercise in Humanity

A Business Decision is an Exercise in Humanity

We all like to be successful. Being successful in business makes us feel fantastic. We want more success in life as a general rule. Because of this we tend to try and do more of what made us successful. But when we repeat what we gave us success yesterday, we

My Pi-Spective on Humility

My Pi-Spective on Humility

(A pi-spective is where you write about something in 314 words) Humility is such a hard thing to get right. We place ourselves in the centre of the events of our lives. Often times we're simply bit part players. But we don't like the implications

Senior Leaders Have One Decision to Make

Senior Leaders Have One Decision to Make

Business organizations are decision making networks. To ‘organize’ is to construct or establish. The word comes from ‘organ’ which has a confused etymology. It surfaces in the Greek as an ‘implement, a tool for making or doing’. It had a strong association to musical instruments. Which is helpful because the

My Pi-Spective on Positive Dissatisfaction

My Pi-Spective on Positive Dissatisfaction

(A pi-spective is where you write about something using only 314 words) Dissatisfaction. Even the word feels empty. It's different from unsatisfied. To satisfy originally meant to make amends or repay. The root is about 'doing enough'. Now it's become about having something

Looking Past The Obvious

Looking Past The Obvious

This series of posts is about the importance of learning to build a theory about what our business is and should be. Ours is a liminal world, a place of ambiguity and disorientation where a new way of thinking is still emerging. The basic idea is if we don’t

My Pi-Spective on Staying Relevant

My Pi-Spective on Staying Relevant

"The devil is in the detail." We hear this all the time. Catchphrases such as this can mean everything and nothing at the same time. It suggests that we must take great care to scrutinize the detail of a project or proposal lest it fail. An older version