Akoben

05/26/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/six-minute-gap-what-uluru-george-gan-teaching-me-timing-muhammad-abpvf

We stood facing Uluru in the quiet of early morning, surrounded by dozens of others who had gathered for sunrise. There was a shared sense of anticipation in the air, but also a kind of stillness that made the moment feel heavier, more meaningful.

04/22/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/same-direction-different-steps-power-alignment-malik-muhammad-setae

“Malik, the problem is that we are just not on the same page.” “Yep, yep, that all sounds great and I believe in this, but everybody is not onboard.

04/07/2026

Every system rests on a pattern of conversation, whether we acknowledge it or not.

I am by no means a tech head, but I learned about an idea from software design that keeps resurfacing for me: Conway’s Law. In 1968, Melvin Conway made an observation: organizations design systems that mirror their internal communication structures.

03/24/2026

Culture is shaped in micro-moments — like who speaks first in a meeting and who absorbs the first risk of honesty.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-last-leadership-move-shapes-culture-malik-muhammad-vxg3c

03/10/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brandolinis-law-why-creators-always-win-malik-muhammad-29dec

Brandolini’s Law tells an uncomfortable truth: It takes far more energy to refute nonsense than it does to create it. Most people hear that and think, “Yes, misinformation is exhausting.

02/12/2026

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leaders-rule-connection-before-content-malik-muhammad-xnnjc

“Connection isn’t the warm-up. It is the work.

02/04/2026

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02/04/2026

Self-care is the internal route. Community care is the external one. We need both to truly return.



https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-fire-goes-out-two-paths-back-from-box-malik-muhammad-j83hf

01/27/2026

"The greatest enemy of the revolutionary is isolation." - Kwame Nkrumah

I just spent five days co-facilitating a Leadership Academy in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in India. Beautiful water.

01/20/2026

Culture doesn’t move because it was explained well. It moves because people lived something together and couldn’t unlearn it.

Most initiatives don’t fail because they’re bad ideas. They fail because we ask them to perform before they’ve had a chance to learn.