Freewheeling Bitesize: Moving Forwards Faster

Freewheeling Bitesize: Moving Forwards Faster

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You Don’t Need Consensus. You Need Clarity.
Trying to please everyone is the fastest route to pleasing no one.
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Thomas Ableman
Electrification ≠ Sustainability
Electric vehicles can feel like a get-out-of-jail-free card.Thanks for reading Freewheeling Bitesize!
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Innovation Usually Dies of Delay, Not Cost
Innovation may sound expensive but most experiments don’t fail because they were too pricey, they fail because they took too long.
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Thomas Ableman
Reward the Redirect
Everyone says they want agility.
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Thomas Ableman
If your idea is reversible, just try it.
Public money isn’t the same as private money.
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Thomas Ableman
Most Bureaucracy Starts With Good Intentions
No one ever sets out to create a 27-step sign-off process.
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Thomas Ableman

July 2025

My job was goals, people and money. That’s it.
Most leaders do too much.
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The real role of finance isn’t approval, it’s portfolio management
In most corporates, finance plays the gatekeeper.
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Thomas Ableman
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“They’ve got the wrong shape” - and keep winning.
Thanks for reading Freewheeling Bitesize!
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And now for something completely different...
It’s Friday, it’s the start of the Summer Holidays and - much more importantly - it’s six months to the start of A History of Europe in 75 Train…
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The Person Who Starts It Might Not Be the One to Scale It
Getting a project off the ground is often driven by instinct, persuasion and sheer force of will.
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Thomas Ableman
You're probably not as special as you think. That’s a good thing.
Every sector thinks it’s uniquely tough, transport included.
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Thomas Ableman
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