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    <title><![CDATA[Education for a world of abundant intelligence]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[When intelligence is abundant, the bottleneck stops being knowledge and becomes judgment, and judgment can be deliberately built.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Consuming the inheritance]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Britain, the depreciation thesis, and the transition from inheritance to earning.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Private credit dislocation]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[A global infrastructure financing risk assessment.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Adoption-first design in consumer and enterprise systems]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Scale is governed by adoption, not architecture, and consumer systems demand the opposite design order to enterprise ones.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Equity positioning in an age of permissioned levitation]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[When markets are priced by narrow credit spreads rather than cash flows, the risk is not recession but revocation.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Strategy in an age of permission]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Markets switch between permissioned and non-permissioned regimes, and most strategic failure is misreading which one you are in.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why beating the market and gross margin expansion rarely go together]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Value Creation]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Taking share and expanding gross margins together demands an advantage that is specific, durable and funded; without it, the plan is just ambition in Excel.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Delivering value creation]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Value Creation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[An operating model specified to the mechanism, where the build is funded from the oxygen the existing business releases.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[When vision is owed]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[A public company runs on two surfaces, perception and economics, and strategy is the discipline of keeping them coupled.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The end of the stack]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Enterprise IT architecture when integration is free.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The leadership myths we hire for]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[We mythologise leaders as visionaries, but what companies actually need is someone to make hard choices and hold their nerve.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The forgotten infrastructure of intelligence]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Why the AI future rests on the network.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[An open letter to new CEOs: leading from the dividend floor]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Why a show-me stock should be run from the dividend it can bank, not the consensus it cannot.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The two myths that broke corporate finance]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[How the DCF and Modigliani–Miller, taught as scripture, became the superstitions that launder optimism and breed corporate stagnation.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The ten rules of corporate finance]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ten rules for treating cash as truth, debt as a lever, and the dividend as the meal.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Convertible notes: the missing muscle in corporate partnerships]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Big companies are built to acquire and control, not to partner; convertible notes rebuild the muscle for sharing risk and upside.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Frame it, prove it, get out of the way]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Organisations are tribes that trust what they see, so execution runs on proof, not PowerPoint.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[You don't shift culture: you swap it in]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Why 30% of your top team needs to change before anything else can.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Inclusion as renewal: throwing open the windows]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Inclusion is not charity but governance's term limit: the corporate substitute for elections that stops the boardroom choking on its own past.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Leaders don't build pipelines. They carry posses]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Succession is not a pipeline of anonymous candidates; it is a posse forged in battle and trusted under fire.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[There are no fibre laggards, just lazy analysis]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Fibre league tables mostly rank geography wearing a badge of competence; the missing character is context.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The right to click: why making internet access a human right isn't just a noble idea, but a regulatory earthquake]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Calling internet access a human right turns a slogan into a state obligation, and ends two decades of market-first regulation.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[When your infrastructure became sovereign]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[AI has made the pipes political: your cloud is someone's arsenal, your network someone's border, and strategy can no longer float above the battlefield.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Give me a CEO with a spine, not a slogan]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Vision flatters, strategy bites; if no one bristles, it is not strategy, it is wallpaper.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The vanity of brands in the land of indifference]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[In low-interest categories a brand is plumbing, not religion: it can buy recall and a sliver of pricing power, but never love.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The cloud is a furnace]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[The weightless cloud is concrete, steel and kilowatts, and the company that treats its energy as PR will face the reckoning.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Augmented, not automated]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[AI should accelerate the executive's judgement, not replace it: augmentation without abdication.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[When "as-a-service" is just debt in disguise]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Without pooled, multi-tenant infrastructure, "as-a-service" is not a service but financing dressed as one.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Growth isn't born in the boardroom]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Real growth begins in customers, not slide decks; inflating the map never moves the mountain.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Open RAN's governance vacuum: why architecture without accountability fails]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Open RAN opened the architecture but fragmented accountability, and the quest for sovereign control created a sovereignty vacuum.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Customer emotional debt: the strategic risk you're not forecasting]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Customers do not stay for value alone but for how it feels to receive it, and for the debt that builds when that feeling breaks.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Global shocks, local insanities: the two ways supply chains fail]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Supply chains fail two ways: the geopolitical thunderclap, and the quiet waste accumulating in your own storeroom.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How revenue recognition games inflate bonuses, and how to stop them]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[How the elastic in IFRS 15 lets companies book tomorrow's revenue today, flatter the P&L, and pay the bonuses now.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lead with governance: the integration lesson most companies learn too late]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[What the BT and EE integration taught: if you do not change the reporting lines, you have not changed anything.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[When the market was wrong and the customer was right]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[A lesson in customer obsession, learned the hard way.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The internet in the rain]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[The internet does not float; it lives in mud and midnight call-outs, and copper service levels are engineered to disappoint until fibre replaces them.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Simple corporate finance rules for strategists]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[A practitioner's rules of thumb for valuation, capital and allocation, stripped of false precision.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The missing operating system behind strategy execution]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
    <category><![CDATA[Operating Model]]></category>
    <description><![CDATA[Strategy fails in the operating rhythm, not the boardroom; a fixed set of conversations to anchor scattered leadership attention.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The best training Booz ever paid for]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[How a strategy firm tried to learn empathy through neuroscience, and the two tools that rewired how I lead.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ten years a consultant: what I took, what I left]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[What a decade in strategy consulting gave me, and what it could not: how to advise is not how to decide.]]></description>
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