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When Strategy Meets Delivery


I stopped fighting for something I knew was right. That was the moment I knew.
I was sitting in an executive meeting. Something I'd been incrementally building the case for — for eighteen months — was nearly there. One more push and it would land. I knew it. I could see it. And I sat there quietly and let it go. Not because I'd changed my mind. Not because the argument wasn't right. I just couldn't be bothered. The energy it would take to keep influencing, keep pushing, keep caring — I didn't have it. I came out of the room and thought: I just can't be
Nic McDonald
May 112 min read


Everyone agreed on the priorities. Nobody stopped the other 800 things.
We knew something was wrong before we could prove it. Decisions were slow. The same escalations kept landing with the same people. The leadership team was working flat out and the business was still moving slower than it should. So we did a project amnesty. Every active piece of work across the organisation — named, owned, brought into the open. No hiding, no protecting your patch. Just an honest picture of what the business was actually doing. The number was 800. 800 live pr
Nic McDonald
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