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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.
Rob Lambert 19 Dec 2025
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Most Opportunities to Improve Are Obvious — If You Learn to See

Why the best business improvements are often obvious — and how learning to notice simplicity can unlock clarity, alignment, and momentum.
Rob Lambert 08 Sep 2025
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Why Images Speak Before Words

Images don’t argue or persuade — they present. This essay explores why photographs and visuals help humans make sense of complexity faster than language, and why visual thinking remains an overlooked form of intelligence at work.
Rob Lambert 15 Aug 2024
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Clarity, Alignment, Momentum

Most organisational problems are not technical failures, but failures of clarity, alignment, and communication. This essay explores why clarity creates alignment, alignment generates momentum, and momentum is how ideas become value.
Rob Lambert 04 Apr 2023

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