Insights
Practical thinking on business, management and leadership.
Business rarely suffers from a shortage of information. The harder part is understanding what matters, what is actually driving performance and what to do about it.
Fundamental Insights brings together monthly analysis, deeper perspectives and practical management resources — combining what is happening in UK business with the fundamentals that determine how organisations perform.
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IN-BRIEF
What's happening — and what does it actually mean?
A monthly view of the issues shaping UK business, leadership, retail and the economy, looking beyond the headline numbers to consider the management implications.
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IN-DETAIL
One subject. Properly explored.
Longer-form perspectives on management, leadership and business performance — combining evidence, practical experience and a willingness to challenge conventional thinking.
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RESOURCES
Useful management thinking you can actually use.
Simple explanations of models, frameworks and tools that can help managers think more clearly, understand people better and make stronger decisions.
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New thinking, current issues and practical perspectives on running better businesses.
In Detail
Because some subjects deserve more than a LinkedIn post.
A closer examination of the management decisions, behaviours and assumptions that shape business performance.
Not theory for theory's sake. The aim is to understand the issue properly, challenge some of the conventional answers and arrive at something a manager can actually use.
Management Resources
Useful models. Plain English. Practical application.
There are hundreds of management theories and frameworks. Some are genuinely useful. Others are considerably better at filling PowerPoint slides.
Here you'll find the ones I believe are worth understanding — what they mean, where they help and, just as importantly, where they don't.
Emotional Intelligence
Understanding how emotions influence our own behaviour and the way we work with others.
Transactional Analysis
A useful way of understanding communication, relationships and why conversations sometimes go spectacularly off course.
Spheres of Influence
A simple framework for concentrating effort on what you can actually affect rather than exhausting yourself on what you cannot.
Information isn't insight.
A metric tells you what happened. Insight helps explain why.
Good management requires both: understanding the result, identifying the inputs that created it and deciding what to do differently next.
Fundamental Insights is about that second part.
The Autumn Budget 2026 promises breathing space for Britain's businesses, with expanded business rates relief, support for entrepreneurs and measures to ease household costs. But with employment costs rising, consumer spending constrained and economic growth subdued, has the Budget genuinely improved the conditions for UK SMEs to succeed? Fundamental Management examines the announcements, economic forecasts and industry reaction.