Looking beyond the immediate
The present has a way of making everything feel urgent. Yet some of the forces shaping enterprise, economics and society become clearer only when we step away from the immediate and consider the patterns developing underneath.
This section takes a longer view of those forces—examining structural change, institutions, enterprise and society without the pressure to reach conclusions before the picture has had time to emerge.
From A Longer View
Essays and reflections on enterprise, economics, institutions and society—examining the deeper forces and longer-term changes that are often difficult to see in the immediacy of events.
What Enterprise Builders Should Understand About Productivity
Over the years, I have come to question whether disappointing productivity is always a reflection of the people working within an enterprise, or whether it sometimes reveals the limitations of the organisation we have built around them. Reflecting on my experiences with the restaurant operations under Whitefern Hotels Group, I find myself reconsidering the decisions…
The Assumptions We Carry Into Growth
Earlier on 11th October, 2026, I shared a few thoughts on LinkedIn about the challenges of building three consumer brands under Avelmont Estate. Those thoughts have stayed with me, particularly the assumptions we carry from one business into another. Coming from a plantation family, and looking at enterprise-building through both experience and behavioural economics, I…
