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02/09/2026

Told to retire at 70, Faisal Abdallah stepped down as CEO and asked for the HR job.

Why? As he told me on the latest Elephants in the Boardroom podcast: "The single most important driver in business is the human being."

The ageing grey elephant isn't only about who leaves. It's about the experience we throw away when they do.

We are living and working longer than any generation before us, yet most organisations still run on a retirement model built for a world that no longer exists. That is the grey elephant. Big, obvious, and largely ignored.

Our Grey Elephants keynote on ageing and the future of work tackles exactly this: what changes when five generations share a workforce, how to hold onto experience instead of discarding it, and how to turn longevity from a cost into a genuine advantage.

If you would like me to bring this to your leadership team or conference, the details are in the comments. 👇

31/08/2026

Somewhere between client sessions and some time away, I'm running one of the world's hardest trail marathons this month.

The Otter Challenge. Part of a bigger goal I've set for myself this year, keeping healthy and making space for the things that fill you back up.

I choose to do hard things, so that the hard things I don't choose feel easier.

27/08/2026

Grateful for this kind note from Gary Skeeles, Primary Headmaster at SACS.

“Graeme delivered an incredible message to the Junior School Principals of the Association of Public Boys' Schools (APBSA). As school leaders, we all face the challenges of leading multi-generational teams, and Graeme opened our eyes to the perspective of our Gen Z staff in the midst of such a rapidly changing world. His message was insightful, highly relevant, and incredibly engaging, a true highlight of our annual conference.”

Schools are living the same challenge as every other workplace: several generations under one roof, each seeing the world a little differently. I’ve just shared a new video on why the generation gap is wider than ever, and how understanding it helps every generation work better together. Take a look below.

Always a privilege to do this work.

26/08/2026

China's one-child policy solved one problem and seeded another.

Today: 33 million more young adult men than women. Completely predictable to anyone tracking demographics.

This is what a grey elephant radar does - it reads the second and third-order effects, not just this year's headline.

What second-order effect is your strategy ignoring? 👇

Podcast brought to you by Achilles Information Limited

24/08/2026

Young people have no respect, no morals, no discipline." Sound familiar?

Socrates wrote that. 2,400 years ago.

So has the generation gap closed since? My short answer is no. It's wider than ever, and if you lead a team with more than one generation in it, that's worth understanding.

I get into why in the full video, out on YouTube this week. Keep an eye out.

18/08/2026

In one month: 17 countries battling out-of-control wildfires. France declaring fires uncontrollable. Table Mountain alight as we recorded.

The grey elephant radar was never about surprising you. It is about one question: what are you doing about it?

Posting the odd update is not a strategy. Preparing for the new normal is.

Watch the full episode → link in the comments.

13/08/2026

An abandoned SpaceX rocket crashed into the Moon in August 2026. As far as we know, it's the 11th human-made object to hit the Moon since the 1990s. Nobody planned it. Space junk has to go somewhere.

There are thousands of satellites over our heads right now, and we're on our way to hundreds of thousands, then millions, mostly so a few more people get better Wi-Fi coverage.

That leaves us with three growing problems: debris falling back to Earth onto people and property, working satellites getting taken out by the junk around them, and a night sky so crowded with light that our children and grandchildren might never see the stars the way we did.

We did this to our rivers and oceans and only acted once the mess was too big. We still have time to get it right with space. This week's Throw Forward Thursday is about acting now, before the sky fills up for good. Watch it on YouTube.

12/08/2026

Here's something I can't stop thinking about.

Every generation before us has looked up at the night sky and seen the same stars. We might be the last one who does.

I get into why in tomorrow's ThrowForward Thursday. Here's a taste.

05/08/2026

Last week, the w**e that landed within 72 seconds of a time I was promised that morning.

But the w**e was never really the point.

When you feel that kind of precision, the instinct is to copy it. Do the same thing, cheaper. A bit faster. A bit better.

That is a trap. The world is being reconfigured, not tidied up. And you do not win it by doing the old thing more efficiently. Everyone is already doing that. It gets you to the start line, not the front.

Babylonstoren did not deliver w**e slightly faster than the next farm. They rebuilt what a delivery is.

So put this to your team: what would you build if you could not compete on doing the same thing better?

Most teams I meet are busy perfecting something the market is about to walk past. If that is a risk for yours, DM me and let's talk.

03/08/2026

Graduates, HR teams, public school leaders, global corporates - August is a good reminder that the future of work conversation is happening everywhere, across every sector and every level.

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