Reading the room (All four paws in)
I came across an article this week that said humans aren’t always great at telling when dogs are in pain. You’re generally good at spotting the obvious signs, but the quieter ones can slip past. Things like yawning, lip or nose licking, looking away, or blinking a bit more than usual. To be fair, we […]
Tagged: what happens when an employee’s comment becomes your problem
Sherele Moody is an award-winning journalist, femicide researcher, and founder of Australian Femicide Watch and The RED HEART Campaign, a project that maps and documents every woman and child killed by male violence in Australia. She counts the dead, names them, and refuses to let their stories disappear into a news cycle. Her advocacy is […]
You’re welcome, by the way: pets can help you live longer.
I found this article about whether owning a pet can help you live longer. Researchers have been studying the positive impacts of having a pet for decades: the walks, the lowered blood pressure, the sense of routine and purpose. The results, apparently, are fairly compelling. I read this with the quiet satisfaction of someone who already knew. […]
Match point in the war room: what elite sport taught me about crisis leadership
There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over a room just before a reputational crisis becomes public, or a major board decision lands on the table. It’s heavy. At that point, preparation, judgement and ethics are all you really have to rely on. In those moments, it often feels less like a meeting and […]
Dogs aren’t just here for pats and snacks.
I saw this piece on how dogs tune into human emotion and behaviour. It rings true, especially in a team environment like ours. Dogs aren’t just here for pats and snacks. They’re scanning the room all the time, picking up subtle gestures, shifts in tone, little changes in body language that most people miss. They’re […]
Does Dark PR really win?
Public relations has always had its shadow practices. What’s changed is not their existence, but their scale, speed and sophistication. In today’s attention economy, a subset of communications tactics – often referred to quietly as “Dark PR” – has moved from the margins to the mainstream. These approaches reject transparency in favour of saturation. They […]
