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Field kit

Essays on the leader's job as it is shifting, and the instruments you can use to navigate it.

8 essays 48 min of reading 2 tools

  1. 2025

The instruments

  • Run the morning-after ledger

    Moody's counts $662 billion of data-centre lease commitments that aren't on a balance sheet yet. When they land, the correction deletes the spend that never became capability — and can't touch the work you actually redesigned.

    Take the PDF into the room
  • Run the rerun test

    BCG measured the last playbook: 70% of digital transformations fell short, and nobody wrote the closing report. Five questions, one sitting, ending in a word you can say in the meeting — including the one number here you should distrust.

    Take the PDF into the room