Communication

It’s been some time since my last post, and I hope readers will forgive the hiatus I took. For better or worse, I’m back! :-) Years ago, through my training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, I learned…

A recent study from Cornell University reignites the debate on how language impacts our interactions with AI—and each other. On April 18, 2025, an article published in O Globo – a major Brazilian…

"We are used to thinking about competitions in which there is only one winner....But the world is rarely like that.. The key to doing well lies not in overcoming others, but in eliciting their co…

In his book ‘Growth - A Reckoning’,  Daniel Susskind eloquently sets out what he terms the ‘Growth Dilemma’ – how to balance the promise of economic growth against its price. The promise comes…

"Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears." Surely some mistake, I thought; shouldn’t it be the other way round? Swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks?…

I’m not really a fan of musicals so I was rather surprised to find myself responding to a friend’s recommendation and booking tickets for of ‘Hamilton’. Having taken the plunge I went further and…

Daniel Kahneman, the psychologist who won the Nobel prize for economics, died in March. He described himself as the grandfather of behavioural economics, which provides so many insights into how…

  This is Part 2 of a two-part blogpost. Part 1 was published in January 2024. This blog explores what narrative means for us in the field of conflict resolution as we navigate an increasingly…

Tribalism is often referenced as a significant factor in much of the conflict we see around us at the moment. Perhaps this isn’t so surprising when we look back at the story of human evolution as…