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Introduction
Leadership at the highest level is a discipline. Like any discipline, it improves with rigorous, continuous learning. We believe knowledge and understanding evolves fastest from genuine insight drawn from current research, applied to the specific environments in which senior leaders actually operate.
This is Destrier Group's contribution to that learning. We are grateful for the support of forward thinking leaders with curious minds.
Everything published here draws from peer-reviewed science, original research, and direct experience working with boards and executive teams across the Asia-Pacific region. There are no generic clickbait, no motivational content, and no borrowed ideas dressed in new language.
If it is here, it is because it is useful, defensible, and specific enough to change how you think.
What You Will Find Here
Articles Concise, research-informed pieces on leadership, governance, decision-making, and human-AI partnership. Written for senior leaders who value precision over padding.
Research Summaries Accessible summaries of significant findings from organisational psychology, behavioural science, and governance research; translated from academic language into direct, actionable insight.
Frameworks and Tools Practical frameworks for self-assessment, team evaluation, and governance reflection grounded in the same scientific methodology underpinning every Destrier Group engagement.
Recommended Reading A curated library of the books, papers, and resources we return to consistently. It an insight to the foundations of our practice.
Articles
Research Summaries
Frameworks and Tools
Recommended Reading
This insightful and meticulously researched book makes a compelling case that the "connective labour" or socioemotional skills increasingly important to millions of jobs, both old and new, are at risk of being lost with the automation of jobs. Pugh argues that we need to protect this vital humane work and the face-to-face interactions that are so essential to our wellbeing. The book is a refreshing challenge to the promissory discourse about AI being able to replicate and even surpass human capacities/capabilities.
Recommended by Judy Wajcman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology at LSE, and Fellow at the The Alan Turing Institute (LSE, 2026).