The Influencers: Brigette Hyacinth on Leadership, AI and Amplifying Human Potential
BlueSky Thinking's The Influencers explores Brigette Hyacinth’s core ideas, from the shifting role of HR and leadership in the digital era to the way AI is reshaping work. It offers guidance on how to integrate her insights into your own professional life and organisational culture.
Can Mobile Banking Save Lives?
Enhanced access to digital tech services doesn't only provide convenience. To remote rural communities it can be a vital route to opportunity and economic growth. But is it really such a quick fix?
Why Working Through The Holiday Season Can Backfire For Everybody
It usually starts with a short email. “Just checking in over the break…” Sometimes it’s framed as helpful. Sometimes as dedication. Occasionally as reassurance that nothing is falling through the cracks. But over the holiday season, that message carries more meaning than its sender often realises. Not dedication, but dysfunction.
Why Year-End Gratitude Emails Often Backfire
Most year-end “thank you” emails don’t motivate. They reveal something else entirely. Business school research shows that generic gratitude often backfires because people don’t feel appreciated unless they feel noticed. Why saying “thank you” is easy, and why doing it well is much harder:
Fear In The Corner Office: How Insecure Managers Silence Talent And Sabotage Progress
Many organisations have encountered their own version of Steve Carell’s Michael Scott in The Office: managers whose authority depends less on enabling others and more on making sure no one outshines them. The result is a culture where people learn to hold back, where speaking up feels risky, and where initiative is carefully rationed.
Flattery Works… Until It Doesn’t – Why Being Candid With Leaders Matters
Despite being vocal in his disagreement with the US President, Zohran Mamdani's meeting with Donald Trump last month was unexpectedly friendly. We explore why endless flattery may leave a greater sour taste than critique...
The Influencers: James Clear on Small Changes, Big Results and the Quiet Power of Habit
The Influencers explores author James Clear’s core ideas - how habits are formed, why identity matters more than goals, and how small changes can transform careers, organisations, and lives. It also offers practical guidance on how to apply his thinking at work and at home, without relying on willpower or dramatic reinvention.
Once Upon a Time in the Job Market: How Business Schools Are Teaching the Art of Storytelling
In today's environment, storytelling is no longer a “soft” skill. It is a survival skill - the ability to frame decisions, explain trade-offs, humanise strategy and make people care. Business schools, once accused of teaching managers to speak in spreadsheets, are now quietly becoming finishing schools for corporate narrators.