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Leadership and Work in Practice

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What Journalism Teaches About Ethics at Work

Journalism taught me how to tell the truth, keep notes, think critically, and protect what matters. These habits turned out to be essential not just for reporting — but for ethical work, leadership, and decision-making.

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From Escape to Creation

A reflective essay on escape, attention, and creativity at work — using an old leisure model to explore why capable people disengage, and what it takes to move from numbing distraction back to meaningful creation.

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Why Most Good Ideas Die in the Boardroom

Most ideas don’t fail because they’re bad — they fail because they’re framed in the wrong language. This essay explores how value translation changes everything.

The Eight Intelligences We Need at Work

The Eight Intelligences We Need at Work

Most workplaces have long rewarded one narrow form of intelligence. But there are at least eight — and the best organisations know how to recognise and use them all.

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Watermelon Reporting

When projects look green on the surface but are failing underneath, the problem isn’t reporting — it’s fear, culture, and distance from reality.

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Hierarchy Isn’t the Problem We Think It Is

Hierarchy is often blamed for dysfunction at work. In reality, most problems come from behaviour, capability, and responsibility — not structure itself.

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Nothing worth knowing can be taught

You can teach the basics of any craft, but competence only emerges through practice. This essay explores why learning fails when it is mistaken for information transfer — and how real capability is formed.