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Field-tested thinking on getting your message to land.

Essays, field guides, and pattern recognition from thirty years in the room where the message gets decided, from the boardroom to the break room.

It’s campaign season. CEOs should be taking notes.

It’s campaign season. CEOs should be taking notes.by: Brian WrightPublished on: 12/10/2026

Whatever you think about politics, campaigns offer an important framework for CEOs and their comms teams to adopt.

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It’s campaign season. CEOs should be taking notes.

How to instill purpose after an acquisition or new CEO

How to instill purpose after an acquisition or new CEOby: Brian WrightPublished on: 09/10/2026

After a deal, people's sense of purpose tends to slip, at the moment the plan asks the most of them. And it can be shored up.

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How to instill purpose after an acquisition or new CEO

Your Value-Creation Plan Failed on a Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Your Value-Creation Plan Failed on a Tuesday at 2 p.m.by: Brian WrightPublished on: 15/07/2026

A PE-backed CEO's value-creation plan is only a PDF until employees act. Why the nod in the room isn't buy-in, and how to build the trust that is.

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Your Value-Creation Plan Failed on a Tuesday at 2 p.m.

What If They Stopped Believing in the Company Before You Arrived?

What If They Stopped Believing in the Company Before You Arrived?by: Brian WrightPublished on: 29/06/2026

Employee buy-in in private equity starts before you arrive. If the workforce never believed in the company, your value-creation strategy lands on barren ground.

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What If They Stopped Believing in the Company Before You Arrived?

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