Wiring — Communication
Speaking as Sense-Making: Why Public Speaking Shapes Leadership
Being good at the work isn't the same as being good at explaining it. Public speaking is how ideas move through an organisation — and how to make yours travel.
Rob Lambert
Wiring — Communication
The Architecture of Clarity
I thought I was researching old printing presses. Instead I found myself studying operating systems. A journey through the archives of the GPO, Braun, Lufthansa and the BBC — and what they were really building beneath the surface.
Wiring — Communication
Is the CV Still the Best Way to Represent Professional Value?
The CV has survived decades of reinvention around it — and viewed as a communication tool with a purpose, an audience and a context, that survival makes sense. What's missing is something else entirely.
Physics — Idea to Value
Portfolio — a declaration of what deserves your attention
Portfolio began as a leather case for carrying papers. Where the word came from, how its meaning changed — and what a portfolio really is at work.
Flywheel — Learning & Practice
The three areas of learning — and the one very few people invest in
When I first started out, I did the obvious thing. I got good at the work in front of me. It didn't take long to notice that being good wasn't enough.
Engine — Creativity & Climate
Putting the human back into the work
Last night I was at a new community event called The Something More Club. Three talks on running a small business, and beneath all three, the same two themes kept surfacing: human connection, and community.
Physics — Idea to Value
The three ways ideas change (or don't)
Progress isn't movement — it's seeing. What stop-motion animation reveals about how your ideas actually become valuable.
Flywheel — Learning & Practice
The Public Commonplace Project
It was some time in the mid to late 80s. A café in Bristol, a man sitting alone, and a twelve-year-old with a new notebook writing his first ever note. Thirty years on, that habit became all of this — and now a good part of it goes public.
Wiring — Communication
The more we define, the less we understand
Organisations often define everything, then define the definitions. Somewhere in the pile, understanding leaves the room. A case for clarity over completeness.
Flywheel — Learning & Practice
Good teaching is the creation of understanding
Good teaching is not the transfer of information. It is the creation of understanding.
Engine — Creativity & Climate
The Word at Work: Cultivate
I bought my copy of Growing a Business second-hand. Inside the cover, in a father's handwriting to his son, was a single line: "To Todd, may this nurture the seed."
Engine — Creativity & Climate
Organisations are not machines
We borrowed our language for organisations from the factory floor. But the parts that decide whether good work happens are the parts no machine can see.