Thought leadership
Let’s start with slop. We’ve all heard about it and – sadly – experienced it. But the explosion of low-quality content isn’t only driven by AI tools, and it isn’t the only reason we risk failing to see in a potential Golden Age of thought leadership. With that in mind,…
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Writers have been stung by critics for as long as there’s been writing. Samuel Pepys declared Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream ‘the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw…
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I was looking at a carousel that my colleagues posted to our CC LinkedIn page a while ago (digression: you should follow our LinkedIn page, if you don’t already). The post was…
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Part 3 Welcome to Human Work. A series about the changing nature of work today. Many a modern conversation starts like this: “Do you prefer working in the office or…
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The internet is thick with business guru after business guru telling you to sell painkillers rather than vitamins. What does that mean? Well, the theory is that we all know…
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Read MoreWhat do we do when there’s a big, upsetting thing that nobody wants to talk about? People have different approaches, but for much of the corporate world, the answer is often…
Read MoreI’ve had several conversations in the past few weeks with contacts at large, US-headquartered, global companies and the conversation always turned to whether (or not) they speak internally about the…
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