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Rob Lambert

Rob Lambert

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The power to enrich lives in the workplace

Leadership is not only about direction or outcomes — it’s about the effect we have on people. Drawing on Laura Archera Huxley’s You Are Not the Target, this note reflects on care, influence, and the quiet responsibility of shaping the emotional climate around us.

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Creativity Is a Climate Problem

Creativity isn’t a personality trait or a nice-to-have. It’s a response to the environment we work in. This essay explores why creativity is a climate problem — and how leaders can design the conditions where care, ideas, and value can flourish.

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Frustration Is a Signal: Why Apathy Is the Real Leadership Failure

Frustration is energy that wants to improve the system. Apathy is energy that has already left. This essay explores why leaders should treat frustration as a signal — and apathy as a warning.

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Mechanisms Exist to Support Outcomes

Frameworks and processes are internal costs. Outcomes create external value. This essay reframes mechanisms as servants of clarity, not substitutes for it.

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The Ministry of Detail

Creativity in organisations rarely comes from big budgets and transformation programmes. It emerges from small acts of attention, constraint, and craft. The Ministry of Detail is where disproportionate impact is born.

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Your Career as an Idea → Value System

A reflective piece on learning as behaviour change, and how Idea → Value lenses can help individuals approach development and employability more intentionally.

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How Ideas Become Knowledge, and Knowledge Becomes Value

An essay on Idea → Value as a sensemaking system, and why feedback circuits — not frameworks — determine organisational learning and value creation.