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52 episodes
since Nov. 4, 2025
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Silence is becoming something of a default for communications leaders. 61% of communications leaders reportedly prefer to keep silent on divisive issues even where their organisation could speak authentically.
So, when is silence the right approach and when is it not? This episode identifies five d…
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I used to be responsible for assuring the communications plans for each risk in the UK's National Risk Register. The risks it catalogues range from the hair-raising (“nuclear miscalculation”), to the familiar (“storms”), to risks you didn't even know you needed to worry about (“major outbreak of Af…
The best advisers are able to disagree with their CEO or Minister and avert bad decisions. Yet somehow they always do so with their reputation enhanced rather than diminished.
They don't just say ‘no’. In fact, they rarely say 'no' at all.
So how do they do it? This episode examines five practica…
Frontier AI may or may not represent a threat to humanity. But there are more immediate risks for corporate affairs directors.
Those include the risk of falling behind on AI adoption, the risk that AI misrepresents your business, and the risk you’re not involved in decisions about how to deploy AI …
In this series, I have argued that good communications leadership involves bringing clarity, capability, and confidence.
Yet, there is one other important source of advantage. The best teams do not simply execute the original plan: they look for a better route.
Continuous improvement is about creat…
In this third part of my series on the ‘four Cs’ of leadership, we look at how to build team confidence.
How can you create a workplace where people are willing to give discretionary effort and support each other? How can you build the belief to keep going when things get difficult? This is a publi…
This is the second part of my series on communications leadership.
This episode is about 'capability': how to identify what the function must be good at to deliver its strategy, assessing whether it can do those things well today, and closing any gap. This is a public episode. If you would like to…
Over the next four weeks, I am sharing my thinking on the fundamentals of communications leadership. What is your job as a communications leader, be it of a small team or a major function?
My 'four Cs' of communications leadership are clarity, capability, confidence, and continuous improvement.
Thi…
Far from having had enough of experts, it seems that we are in thrall to the idea that deep specialist expertise is what’s needed to succeed today.
But I’m starting to wonder: is everyone right? Do we really need more deep expertise, or, in a rapidly changing world, might the ability to operate acr…
When I was in government, we studied the data from thousands of social media posts and found that people tended to watch for only three seconds when content featured a government minister.
So is Andy Burnham rewriting the rules of social media? Should every CEO now front their company’s digital co…
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