BOOKS & STORIES
Books & Stories
BOOKS & STORIES
Different Stories. Shared Questions.
Rolph Smith’s work explores leadership, technology, opportunity, relationships and the choices people make when the future is not predetermined.
From published and forthcoming books to a wider collection of short fiction, each story approaches a different world while returning to a common theme: what happens when people have to decide what comes next?
Published / Coming Soon
PUBLISHED / Coming Soon
Beyond the Dashboard
Leadership. Human Judgement. Technology. Decision-Making.
Beyond the Dashboard is a work of leadership fiction exploring what happens when human judgement meets increasingly powerful systems, data and technology.
Through the experiences and decisions of its characters, the story looks beyond metrics and reporting to the conversations, relationships, uncertainty and consequences that cannot always be captured on a dashboard.
At its centre is a simple question:
As organisations become increasingly informed by technology, where does human judgement still matter most?
Coming Soon
More Stories. Different Futures.
Completed — Coming Soon
PARTNAH
Completed — Coming Soon
CHERRY
Completed — Coming Soon
THE TREASURE MAP
BEYOND THE PAGE
Some Stories Continue Beyond Reading
Selected stories connect to experiences designed to explore their ideas in a different way.
Beyond the Dashboard extends into leadership material including The Gold Chronicles, Leadership Scripts and Blended Rehearsals.
My New Partnah Is an AI also introduces short choice-based experiences where readers can enter a fictional situation, make a decision and reconsider what that choice reveals.
Leadership & Learning
Explore ideas and practical choice experiences connected with Beyond the Dashboard.
Explore Beyond the Story
Step into short fictional choice experiences connected with My New Partnah Is an AI.
Human Choices. Many Worlds.
A completed collection of fictional works explores consequential choices across recurring human territories.
Love
Who might I share my future with?
Career
What could I become?
Fortune
What would I do if opportunity arrived?
Belonging
Where — and with whom — do I belong?
Adventure
What would I risk to experience something extraordinary?
Success
What does winning actually mean to me?
Loss
What would I do when the future I expected disappears?
Technology
What happens when capability changes the choices available?