All posts by Rob England

I invoked an AI-generated Peter Drucker to reflect on our Open philosophy

I’m really enjoying exploring AI as an amateur. I don’t understand – nor do I want to understand – all the technical gobbledegook about how AI works. I learn as little as I need to about its functionality in order to use the tool in my work. The results continue to astonish and enrich me.

Inspired by a post about the famous “culture eats strategy for breakfast”, I wrote a post of my own. Instead of publishing it, I got ChatGPT to invoke the spirit of Drucker.

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Blog posts for August 2025

Fired and has to suck it up: don’t waste your loyalty August 27, 2025

The reward for 21 years of service  to Microsoft? Laid off. And he has to suck it up and say thanks.

Qantas goes the way of Boeing: culture wreck August 27, 2025

One bad boss is all it takes. A man-in-a-suit, with an adversarial approach to labour relations, a Friedmanist focus on shareholder returns, and no respect for what was arguably the world’s greatest airline, has left behind a corporate plane wreck. It’s the Aussie answer to Boeing. “Qantas fined $98 million for illegally sacking staff. …what has been …

Nominated for ZeroDX award August 27, 2025

Back to Beijing again! I was only there a few months ago, after not having been for thirty years. It’s funny how these things happen. Teal Unicorn has been nominated for the ZeroDX Awards this year, wish us luck! With three of our client organisations, also nominated Golden Communication Group, PCS LOGISTICS (PVT) LTD., and AIT Group. …

The fifth edition of Om Ai’s newsletter: Who gets to decide August 19, 2025

“Authority in Open isn’t about power. It’s about clarity: everyone knowing who decides what.” – Om Ai Om’s fifth LinkedIn newsletter out now

Hai Trieu August 16, 2025

Hai Trieu luxury watches and glasses Coming soon…

Adopting just right August 10, 2025

There is a thought pattern I like to use which puts me just over the “chasm” on the acceptance curve. I’m a sceptic of anything novel until the world tests it for me and i see those first indicators that it has “legs”. This saves wasting time chasing fads but still get early on the …

How we got our clients through COVID August 7, 2025

Below is a tightened, fact-checked recap of how Teal Unicorn clients fared through the COVID era, showing which gains landed during the …

PCS Courier: producing different results August 6, 2025

One of Teal Unicorn’s clients in Vietnam is PCS.  PCS Courier is one division of PCS. PCS Courier were the first introduced to the work innovations, which are now happening with great success in the parent company.  You can read our other posts about the group here.    At PCS Courier in 2022, Dr Cherry Vu of Teal …

A VN newspaper article about our client PCS August 6, 2025

Look how well PCS are doing. Here’s the English translation of the full article: PCS’s Bold Transformation to Deliver “Shipments of Happiness” By Vân Nguyễn August 5, 2025 – 11:39 Business – Entrepreneurs | doanhnghiephoinhap.vn After 15 years of establishment and growth, PCS Corporation has overcome internal challenges to become one of Vietnam’s most dynamic and agile logistics enterprises. It …

Fourth editing of Om Ai’s newsletter: 🚨 Not Actually Transparent: Seeing ≠ Knowing August 5, 2025

Om Ai’s generated LinkedIn newsletter , co-edited by Rob

Open Strategy August 5, 2025

Open Strategy is the application of Open principles to strategic thinking and decision-making. It treats strategy not as a fixed roadmap, but as a living system—one that evolves in response to new information, shifting contexts, and collective insight. It replaces secrecy and rigidity with transparency, collaboration, and adaptability. In an Open organisation, strategy is not confined …

Adopting just right

There is a thought pattern I like to use which puts me just over the “chasm” on the acceptance curve. I’m a sceptic of anything novel until the world tests it for me and i see those first indicators that it has “legs”. This saves wasting time chasing fads but still get early on the wave. I did it with SQL, ITSM, Linux, Agile, DevOps, Complexity, Business Agility, DEI, AI…
If you open your mind too far your brain falls out. And if you close it too far you end upon the wrong side of history (like all the consultants and managers still stuck in the 20th Century).

How we got our clients through COVID

[Om the Teal GPT , our custom ChatGPT AI, wrote this (unedited), an analysis of the results our clients had through the period of Vietnam’s COVID lockdowns. All I did was copy and paste.]

Below is a tightened, fact-checked recap of how Teal Unicorn clients fared through the COVID era, showing which gains landed during the 2020–21 lockdown waves and which appeared immediately after, when restrictions were still biting. (Where a result is from a later recovery phase, I flag it.)

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