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  1. Isolationism and Appeasement

    January 24, 2026
    Columns

    The emergence of an isolationist-yet-imperial United States under a fascist and autocratic administration is not as ‘unAmerican’ as we might like to think. All our lives…

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  2. The Cost Cutting Illusion – When Efficiency Eats Your Future

    January 20, 2026
    Columns

    The second trap in The Leadership Trap is the Cost Cutting Illusion. Every leader faces pressure to take cost out. Markets tighten. Investors push for leaner…

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  3. A Prayer for America

    January 17, 2026
    Columns

    A year ago this week, the 47th president of the United States was inaugurated, supported by millions of Christians seeking stability, prosperity, moral renewal, or protection…

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  4. The Echo Chamber – When Silence Looks Like Agreement

    January 16, 2026
    Columns

    The first trap in The Leadership Trap is the Echo Chamber. If there is one pattern that shows up in almost every major failure Aravind Sakthivel…

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  5. The Leadership Trap – How Good Leaders Become Case Studies

    January 14, 2026
    Columns

    Most public stories about leadership failure follow the same script. A high-profile chief executive or founder makes a reckless decision, ignores warnings, destroys value. Commentators pick…

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  6. Legitimate Resistance

    December 27, 2025
    Columns

    My Christmas reading has offered a surprising perspective of hope for Ukraine from a new book about the 17th century Dutch painter, Johannes Vermeer. Vermeer lived,…

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  7. Why Celebrate?

    December 20, 2025
    Columns

    Beyond the sentimental glitz, music and food, Christmas can be very unsettling. Now for the fourth time since Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, we are celebrating the Word…

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  8. Modern Humanism: Science, Ethics, and the Stewardship of Earth

    December 12, 2025
    Excerpts

    By Kai Taraporevala https://kaitaraporevala.wixsite.com/modern-humanism Extract: 685 words Humanist discourse as a layered process Modern Humanism is based on a close compact between science and moral decision…

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  9. Decline or Dialogue?

    December 7, 2025
    Columns

    Two sharply contrasting views of Europe surfaced this week, one from Washington, the other from Brussels. These two visions imply very different futures for Europe. And for…

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  10. Change Of Registered Address

    December 5, 2025
    News

    The Registered Address of Salt Desert Media Group Ltd. (SDMG) has changed, to: 127 High Street, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge. CB1 9LU England, UK. That change impacts…

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