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Ghosts in the Boardroom 2025: Dispelling the Shapeshifting Forces That Haunt Corporate Performance
This halloween, Reason Praxis revisits the ghosts haunting today’s boardrooms: the recurring habits, inefficiencies, and governance lapses that keep coming back each year, and how to exorcise them before Christmas.
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Manifestation of Truth Across Interpretive Approaches
This essay explores how different interpretive frameworks influence our access to truth across disciplines. It argues that truth is not simply discovered but shaped – sometimes distorted – by the method of interpretation applied.…
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What if Inflation Isn’t What We Think It Is?
This article interrogates the established view of inflation as a neutral price phenomenon, exposing it instead as a mechanism of asymmetric value capture by dominant economic actors – part of a broader concept, ‘excumulation’…
Past Posts
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Resilience Association Next Webinar: AGILE Workplace Evaluation
19 October 2020|Business Continuity-Resilience, Business Management, Good Governance, Performance management, Sustainability COVID-19 Exit Surgery & Strategy: Agile Workplace Advantages and Disadvantages (Free Zoom event) | Thu, October 22, 2020 | 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BST About this Event and Booking The Resilience Association is pleased to provide you with another COVID-19 Exit Strategy Free to attend Webinar,…
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Data Management and ETL/ELT: Discipline and Order Are Your Choice
“There is nothing wrong in doing things right, first time” is Reason’s motto. Make Sense of your Data and ETL/ELT quality management. When it comes to data management and all ELT/ETL and data lineage matters in business, one can see what is physical such as cables but not what is travelling inside the cables and…
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How we present information matters as much as if not more than information itself
Something a bit more enjoyable for Sunday: two visualisations reminding us that how we represent information is as important as the information itself. This point is often overlooked. Many visualisations focus on either the Wow! effect (with a sad “So what…” question following as the reader can’t make any sense of the visualisation), or hold…
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ECJ, Schrems 2 and (real-world) data protection in the EU
Sharing a perspective and a few facts. Much has been said since the ECJ struck down the #PrivacyShield for US-EU data transfer. Earlier this week, James Sullivan, Jr. from the U.S. Department of Commerce shared a White Paper outlining the information that can help both US and EU organizations in this context. Interesting that the ECJ focuses on aspects related to…
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Your call is very important, which is why you are talking to a bot
Technology is about serving human beings. Interestingly, some plan otherwise. Illustration with customers’ contempt by pushing costly, useless, dystopian bot assistants.
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DataVirus threat: targets are now your brain and decision-making
Do you know what it is about behind the data you trust and use? Recently I had the opportunity to contribute to a LinkedIn post on what new can be said about data that wouldn’t have already been said. A rather difficult but very good question. Most approaches to data usually relate to the importance of its…
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Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?
Same market, same industry but different C-suite, obviously. We believe that less is more and that the post’s title should be enough. More on this topic CNN: UK’s biggest supermarket adds 16,000 jobs to cope with online shopping boom Retail Gazette: M&S to scrap 7000 jobs Reason‘s blogs:
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