Power • Influence • Impact
Insights drawn from two decades helping capable people navigate power and influence in complex organisations.
The Galileo Dilemma did not arrive without intellectual heritage. Its roots reach into one of the most rigorous and least understood frameworks in organisational theory. Understanding that heritage changes how precisely the concept can be applied.
The Galileo Dilemma is a condition that can arise within any system with the potential to threaten radical transformation. This is its precise definition, its conceptual foundation, and the framework behind it.
Groupthink is well documented and widely understood. The Galileo Dilemma is something else. Conflating them is not just imprecise. It leads to the wrong conclusions about what is actually happening and what, if anything, can be done about it.
AI is not simply disrupting industries. It is dismantling the foundations on which competitive advantage has been built for decades. What replaces those foundations is a question every serious organisation and individual needs to answer before their competitors do.
dern life generates an extraordinary volume of signals about what to think, what to fear, and what to pursue. News cycles accelerate. Organisations demand attention. Social platforms amplify emotion. Over time it becomes difficult to distinguish between what genuinely matters and what simply competes for your focus.
For more than twenty years my work has centred on one theme: power and influence. Two decades researching, writing, and coaching on how people get things done inside organisations. How they navigate politics, build credibility, and move others to act. Along the way I...