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Kind AND tough in the workplace – is it possible?

Being kind doesn’t mean being soft. And being tough doesn’t mean being harsh. This post explores how good leaders do both — and why it matters more than ever.

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Paul Lindsell May 9, 2025
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Posting on LinkedIn – what signifies real engagement?

Forget the Likes and the comments. The real LinkedIn metric? When someone brings up your post in a real, unprompted conversation. That’s engagement—and it’s rare.

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Paul Lindsell May 1, 2025
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What’s worth posting on LinkedIn… and what’s not?

Everyone’s an author. Great.

Few can write well. Oh dear.

What, then, are the principles that should govern our activity?

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Paul Lindsell April 24, 2025
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AI and the avatar-influencers – shall we all pack up and go home?

Are AI Avatar-influencers the future of consumer marketing, or a potential minefield?

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Paul Lindsell March 20, 2025
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Where are we with sustainability – who’s telling the truth?

Paul Lindsell assesses inconsistent data on corporate sustainability reporting.

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Sarah Nurgat March 13, 2025
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So is AI the bogeyman?

Does AI really spell disaster for businesses?

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Paul Lindsell March 13, 2025
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What do we think about $1,000 people doing $10 tasks?

This came up the other day when a senior manager told us that they could ‘knock off a few bits of marketing content’ themselves. In

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Paul Lindsell February 27, 2025
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Will today’s US policy set back the green agenda?

Will today’s US policy set back the green agenda? If you listen to the general media moping and misery, you would think that green and

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Paul Lindsell February 21, 2025
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If the market changes, don’t we shimmy with it?

If the market changes, don’t we shimmy with it? We’re just on our way back from the Austrian mountains where we’ve been trekking in the

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Paul Lindsell February 13, 2025
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Five office days…really?

Five office days…really? Thank goodness for a Chief Executive with some real common sense. As reported in the FT, “Citigroup chief executive Jane Fraser has

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Paul Lindsell February 7, 2025
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So it’s all about STEM is it? Hmmm.

So it’s all about STEM is it? Hmmm. A most wise commentator on the radio said the other day, “Education seems to have become confused

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Paul Lindsell January 31, 2025
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Stretching the truth… Simply a cost of doing business?

Last week we took the dog for his daily walk. About halfway round his usual circuit we passed a traffic warden putting a ticket on

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Paul Lindsell January 24, 2025
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Are PR Metrics a bit rubbish?

Short answer – YES! And if you go on to the Web, you’ll find a metaphorical million people saying so. They usually arrogantly label their

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Paul Lindsell January 9, 2025
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Do you send DMs in the holidays?

Was I going to bother you with a Thursday ThoughtSpark over the Christmas break? No I was NOT! Why? Because we’re having a break. That

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Paul Lindsell January 2, 2025
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Agency quality – how do you spot the stinkers?

OK, you lovely in-house marketing managers and directors (a.k.a. “clients”)… …it’s time to turn the tables and look at the good, the bad and the

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Paul Lindsell December 19, 2024
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In-house marketing standards – good, bad or indifferent?

If the answer to this was easy, there would be no quality disappointments for management. Yet it’s a dilemma that has come up in conversation

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Paul Lindsell December 12, 2024
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“Let’s launch it at the show”… possibly the worst idea in the world!

How often do you hear that from colleagues? But surely, it’s what you do before an exhibition or event that counts? Now doesn’t that sound

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Paul Lindsell November 28, 2024
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Should the Head of Sustainability role be a stand-alone or combined with other duties?

First confession: I didn’t invent this powerful question! It’s something that has been coming through in various research projects on Sustainability and ESG development that

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Paul Lindsell November 21, 2024
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