Applied Creativity
Des Kennedy, Dr Sam Illingworth, Andrea Chiarelli, The Strategic Linguist, Jennifer Houle, Sven Brodmerkel (PhD)Creative problem-solving for leaders and teams navigating change. Build the judgement and capability that AI can't replace.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 41 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Why the Planes Will Not Come
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What Your People Aren’t Telling You About Your Values
This post is part one of a three-part series on organisational culture developed in collaboration with and . Both are experts in their respective fields, and if you’re not familiar with their work, I encourage you to check them out.
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Confidently Creative?
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Most conversations about creativity focus on output: the idea, the product, the result. This series is about something earlier, and more important: the internal conditions that determine whether an idea gets voiced at all.
AI has co...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
I help leaders and teams think, create and work better together, so they can shape change rather than be shaped by it.
Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy in Edinburgh. I write about when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone. Author of GenAI in Higher Education (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Showing you how to think like a (human) consultant in the age of AI. Management Consultant & Board member. PhD & MBA. Chartered Fellow of the CMI.
Decoding the grammar of power. Applying business strategy with pragmatics & sociolinguistics to expose how authority is constructed across corporate & AI ecosystems. Views my own, not my employer’s.
Jennifer is a seasoned HR pro dedicated to exposing what is broken in Human Resources and what we can do about it. Being "Uncompliant" is for anyone trying to do good work inside systems that were never built to support them.
Writing about how to make workplaces work for quiet, high-processing, and neuro-complex minds. Communication strategies and tools from a late-identified Comms Prof & former Ad-Creative. Occasionally served with a dash of sarcasm. \ud83d\udc08⬛☕️\ud83e\udde0\ud83d\udcd6
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