Is it working?
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The human cost of the tariff economy
And the Migrants Kept Coming, 1940-1941, Migration Series, Jacob Lawrence.
The macroeconomic commentary on the Trump-era tariff regime of 2025-26 has been plentiful, sophisticated, and almost entirely conducted in the language of trade pol...
10 minutes of time to help shape clear view of workforce communication skills
If you work in communications, read on. If you don’t, but know people who do (especially if they work with or for you), please do pass this onto them.
Internal communication has never mattered more. That is the line we all use,...
What success means
Memento mori mosaic from Pompeii (1st century AD, House of T. Siminius Stephanus, now in Naples).
Earlier this summer, Ipsos published Life Aspirations 2026, a survey of 22,693 adults across 30 countries, fielded in late February and early...
Welcome back. LinkedIn missed you… Not.
A perfect day, Maurizio Cattelan, 1999
You’ve had two weeks off. You’ve done very little; you’ve eaten and drunk things you’re not proud of. You’ve stared at the sea and had no thoughts at all. It was wonderful.
Now you’re back. And Linke...
You are not, in fact, going on holiday
It is that time of year again. The time when professionals across the northern hemisphere participate in a ritual so deeply embedded in the culture of work that nobody pauses to notice how comprehensively absurd it has become.
You know the...
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