What gets your attention gets your energy — and what gets your energy grows.

In this episode, Max & Charlotte explore the idea of “watering” as a leadership practice: where you direct your time, focus and attention determines what actually develops inside your organisation. While many leaders say they value strategy, development and long-term improvement, the reality is often very different — most energy ends up being poured into urgent issues, reactive conversations and short-term pressure cycles.

Max explains how this pattern trains organisations to produce more of what they feed. If you consistently water crisis, you grow crisis. If you reward urgency, you create urgency. Over time, the system reflects behaviour, not intention.

He also examines why leaders tend to water the wrong things during difficult seasons. Under pre ...