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There are two women selling food at Kariakoo. They have set their stalls side by side, shoulder to shoulder. This one’s pilau and that one’s pilau come from the same…

A few years ago I found myself at a business breakfast, one of those long tables where the coffee is good, the pastries are better, and everyone is quietly waiting…

Governments Don’t Struggle to Speak Governments don’t struggle to speak. Statements are issued, press conferences are held, and policies are explained with confidence and authority. From the outside, it looks…

The Dangerous Assumption There’s a dangerous assumption we keep making in this space. If you host something big enough, visible enough, and important enough… it must matter. It sounds logical.…

A Deal That Was Already Decided It was one of those meetings that should have gone well. Strong proposal. Clean numbers. Confident room. Afterwards, the sales team was certain: “We…

Familiar Boardroom Story It usually starts the same way. A long table. A presentation that has too many slides and not enough answers. Numbers have dropped. Sentiment is bad. Someone…

A Conversation You Won’t Like One evening, somewhere between a quiet office and a loud mind, I sat with a young professional who had just “rebranded.” New photos, new colors,…

A Conversation in a Boardroom A few months ago, I sat in a glass-walled boardroom with a senior executive of a respected institution. Intelligent. Experienced. Decorated with titles long enough…

The Town Hall did not begin in boardrooms. It began in politics. In early America, town halls were spaces where leaders faced citizens directly. No filters. No middlemen. Just questions,…

Some people will tell you PR is event planning. Others swear PR people only talk to journalists. Some insist PR is about spinning the truth. And these days, there’s a…