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    January 27, 2026 · Strategy and culture blogs
    What are people dynamics? People dynamics are both simple and complex. Simple to describe:...
    January 20, 2026 · Strategy and culture blogs
    Yesterday I heard in depth from someone with (in)credible, rich and varied experience in INGO ...
    January 13, 2026 · The Change Maker read
    If I went back 4 years, to starting up Clear as a Bell, this is the one thing I'd do differently....
    December 31, 2025 · The Change Maker read
    I photographed this old-fashioned phone on a table in an alcove at Charleston farmhouse in Sussex...
    October 6, 2025 · The Change Maker read
    I've been reading the World Economic Forum The Future of Jobs Report 2025. Stay with me...! ...
    September 26, 2025 · The Change Maker read
    Have you met the 'manager translator'? 🪅 Translating a fizz of ideas and strategies into 🗃️...
    September 19, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought
    #FridayAfternoonThought I met my coaching supervisor this morning - and wow, do I love my...
    September 17, 2025 · Strategy and culture blogs,The Change Maker read
    Welcome to this first of a short series of posts for calmer ways to work. The problem ...
    Update January 2026 I tend to talk about friction and flow, rather than tensions these days....
    August 5, 2025 · Strategy and culture blogs
    (painting JMW Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1834 at Tate Britain) If you...
    July 25, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought
    #FridayAfternoonThought One of my favourite questions during a strategy/opportunities review can...
    July 10, 2025 · Incidentally
    Am I a sad cynic, seeing what's not there or have I spotted something you all knew but hadn't...
    June 20, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought,Strategy and culture blogs
    #FridayAfternoonThought I found myself squealing 'Yes!' - er, much to the bemusement of my...
    May 23, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought
    "Sounding Board" - idiom or metaphor? Frankly I don't really care either way. Grammarist says it...
    May 16, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought
    #FridayAfternoonThought The deeper I step into understanding the psychology and the mechanisms...
    May 8, 2025 · Strategy and culture blogs
    You may have heard me bang on about making change more successful by focusing on involving the...
    April 28, 2025 · Incidentally
    Your body counts. Your mind, your brain, every thought, every discussion with someone, every...
    April 11, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought
    #FridayAfternoonThought I've been reading Outliers by Malcom Gladwell (2008), basically looking...
    April 4, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought
    #FridayAfternoonThought During the bathroom renovation, this week I had forgotten to buy a...
    March 28, 2025 · Friday Afternoon Thought
    #FridayAfternoonThought It's a beepy world! Are they a beeping nuisance or a beeping wonder? I...
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