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What great leaders can teach us about the art of making a deal
  • calender icon September 10, 2017

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

There are six lessons we can all learn from the best negotiators, writes Tom Fletcher. The new school term is finally underway, with its usual ...

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REVIEW: The Naked Diplomat
  • calender icon September 1, 2017

  • user icon Matthew Mercer, Centre for Public Impact

To read The Naked Diplomat is to experience a mixture of enjoyment, fascination and regret.    Enjoyment and fascination speak fo ...

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You want the truth? You can handle the truth
  • calender icon August 24, 2017

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

Every year the Oxford Dictionary picks a word of the year. In 2016, adulting fought it out for the top spot with chatbot and alt-right. I reckon th ...

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'Getting it wrong could start a war': welcome to the age of digital diplomacy
  • calender icon August 13, 2017

  • user icon Nick Miller, The Sydney Morning Herald

Across the room, over the canapes, I spot a fascinating creature. There, in the wild (aka a function in central London attended by a bunch of diplo ...

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In the digital age, anyone can be a diplomat. Increasingly, everyone will need to be
  • calender icon July 16, 2017

  • user icon Tom Fletcher, The National

On the dangers of too much certainty and too little curiosity. It is that time of year when many in the West are heading towards the heat and m ...

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