AI can give everyone the information. What you notice nextis where your value begins.Â
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Knowing More Used to Make You Valuable
For most of our careers, knowing more gave you an advantage. Qualifications showed what you had learned. Experience showed what you had done. Expertise meant you knew t...
That isn't the problem.
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What Expertise Really Means
A few days ago, I was reading a Forbes article about the skills communication professionals will need as AI becomes part of everyday work. There were eighteen of them including curiosity, critical thinking, adaptability, strategic clarity, re...
We spend so much time thinking about what we want to say that we forget a simple truth. People don't experience our message. They experience their own interpretation of it.Â
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We Don't All Take Information In The Same Way
Azizah and I take in information completely differently.
I'm very visual a...
The answer may determine the future value of your expertise.
When The Room Realised This Wasn't Really About AI
At our latest Thought Leaders Breakfast Club, I asked the room a simple question:Â
"If AI took over your role, what would you do?"
Around the table were leaders from recruitment, hospi...
The people who know your work may already trusted your expertise. But if your reputation has left no public trail,AI may never now enough to consider you.Â
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When Expertise Leaves No Trail
At a recent business event, I spoke with an experienced professional who wanted to become better known as a...
What Makes You Trust Someone?
"I trust him to behave exactly as I expect him to. But I do not respect him."
That comment changed the direction of a recent conversation with 17 business leaders. We had started by asking whether trust should given first or earned over time. But the room soon bega...
AI can generate almost anything. The question is whether it'sslowly erasing what makes you... you.
Have You Become Harder To Recognise?
This week, in our WhatsApp community, Thought Leaders Living Room, one of our daily questions was deceptively simple.
"What's one business skill you believe wi...
The answer may not be what's easy for you.It may be what made it easy for you.
The Conversation Took An Unexpected Turn
At our last Breakfast Club, we started with one simple word.
Power.Â
As expected, everyone around the table had a differnt definiton. Some saw it as influence. Others spoke abo...
The people who become trusted voices don't just report what's happening. They help others understand what it means.Â
The People We Check With Before We Decide
We've spoken before about the importance of making your thinking visible. Since then, I've noticed something becoming even more obvious.
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The larger your network becomes, the harder it can be to findconversations without agendas.
The Conversation Nobody Expected.
At our recent Thought Leaders Breakfast Club, we arrived with a completely different agenda.Â
The conversation was designed around decisions. The kind that shape careers...
Some of the abilities that help people nagivate uncertainty are builtlong before they enter the boardroom.
The Intelligence Nobody Taught Me
We've all met people who seem to notice things before everyone else.
They walk into a room and quickly understand the dynamics. They sense tension before i...
But visibility is becoming cheap. The real asset is whether peoplestill choose you when easier alternatives already exist.Â
The Audience Followed Her
On 30 May 2025, Taylor Swift regained ownership of the master recordings from her first six albumbs after a six-year public battle over control of...
