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Duncan explores why so many people feel disconnected at work even inside organisations that look successful from the outside. He unpacks the gap between companies saying people matter and leading them…
Book this angle →Duncan discusses why so much management training still rests on assumptions that made sense when work was repetitive, tightly controlled, and designed around compliance rather than thinking. His persp…
Book this angle →Duncan brings a grounded and highly usable challenge to one of the most common habits in business: promoting technically excellent people into leadership roles without ever exploring whether they have…
Book this angle →Duncan’s take on AI is more nuanced than either techno-optimism or panic. He argues that AI itself is not the core threat to work; the bigger risk is that organisations are trying to build an AI-enabl…
Book this angle →Duncan has a rare lens on leadership under pressure because he worked at the Federal Reserve during the financial crisis and in healthcare during COVID, two environments where predictable systems coll…
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