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Latest Editions

Why does everyone hate their job?

Sep 28, 2026

Part 2: The problem is the blueprint

Clif P Lewis

Why does everyone hate their job?

Sep 24, 2026

Part 1: The problem isn't the paycheque

Clif P Lewis

The 120-hour Workweek

Sep 23, 2026

Flexible Working Hours. The hours are flexible, the expectation to respond is less so.

Shaida Darian

Four essays on systems that aren't doing what we think they are

Sep 17, 2026

Hiring, attention, management, and AI. All circling the same question.

Shaida Darian

Featured Editions

🎁 The cost of caring

Jul 30, 2026

The behavioural science behind why employees stop going above and beyond.

Frank Richardson

The Managerial Shock Absorber, or the path of least resistance?

Sep 10, 2026

Why we must stop treating the middle management role as an infinitely elastic buffer for organisational friction.

Shaida Darian

Why does everyone hate their job?

Sep 24, 2026

Part 1: The problem isn't the paycheque

Clif P Lewis

The 120-hour Workweek

Sep 23, 2026

Flexible Working Hours. The hours are flexible, the expectation to respond is less so.

Shaida Darian

Leadership

📋 The performance review trap

Aug 6, 2026

Why employees and managers can leave the same conversation with completely different understandings.

Frank Richardson

⚽ Everyone's an expert after the whistle

Jun 30, 2026

Why every failed project suddenly creates a room full of strategic geniuses.

Frank Richardson

🛋️ Manager or therapist?

Jun 24, 2026

How managers became the default support system for everything from burnout to breakups

Frank Richardson

😬 What if micromanagement is actually anxiety?

Jun 11, 2026

We tend to blame ego, control, or trust issues, but the psychology might be a little more complicated.

Frank Richardson
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Future of Work

The 120-hour Workweek

Sep 23, 2026

Flexible Working Hours. The hours are flexible, the expectation to respond is less so.

Shaida Darian

The option, not the outcome: Is AI taking jobs, or taking the blame?

Sep 16, 2026

When organisations attribute job cuts to AI, they blur the line between technological capability and executive choice.

Shaida Darian

📈 Introducing Scope Creep's AI cousin... Job Creep

Aug 11, 2026

AI is making many of us way more capable and expectations are growing just as quickly.

Frank Richardson

🗺️ Have we been mapping AI skills all wrong?

Jul 22, 2026

Why the future of capability frameworks may be about reprioritisation rather than expansion.

Frank Richardson
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Hiring & Talent

Applicant Tracking System, or applicant target practice?

Aug 27, 2026

Are we optimising recruitment, or optimising for employee success?

Shaida Darian

🤝 Hiring is getting weird again

May 19, 2026

Hiring used to be structured and predictable. Apparently, it’s now happening in bars, airports, and the cereal aisle.

Frank Richardson

🛠️ The return of “REAL” work

Apr 9, 2026

Why Gen Z are pushing for work they can see, feel and actually point to.

Frank Richardson

🪞 Is ‘talent density’ substance or smoke?

Jan 29, 2026

Why concentrating “the best people” might cost more than leaders expect.

Frank Richardson
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