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• the fall of the big men

  By rachelbriggs on June 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Today I joined the debate on Global Dashboard as part of Scenarios Week. We have known for generations that our old models of leadership are not fit for purpose. A once in a multi-generation pandemic offers a global leadership control… Read More ›

• shelter – our most important currency in these difficult times

  By rachelbriggs on June 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  I hope today can feel like a new day. I am up early, blinds drawn, sipping coffee from my favorite mug, the sun peeping over the foliage outside my window and landing on my tired face. I slept fitfully last… Read More ›

• the simplicity principle by julia hobsbawm – my review

  By rachelbriggs on May 24, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  We spend one third of our waking life online, being ‘on’ 24/7 is the new norm at work, and plate spinning has become a badge of honor. There is a different way to live and work – and The Simplicity Principe shows us how. Here’s my review.

• beware imagined and self-fabricated duty

  By rachelbriggs on May 18, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Duty and obligation are virtues, but we must not forget that duty to yourself is the most important duty of all – and imagined and self-fabricated duty can be highly corrosive.

• slow is often the fastest way to travel

  By rachelbriggs on May 12, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Slowing down is the fastest way to get where I want to go After stepping down from my busy, stressful – but rewarding – job a couple of weeks ago, I gave myself the best leaving gift: time. Three months,… Read More ›

• when the storytelling needs to stop

  By rachelbriggs on May 3, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  “For the first time in my life, I have shed ‘survivor’ or ‘victim’ as my identity. I was having to survive on being a ‘survivor’, because that’s how I was making money, speaking about what happened to me. Now I… Read More ›

• what’s working in US hostage policy?

  By rachelbriggs on April 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  Here’s the video of the event I spoke at to launch Bringing Americans Home, the 2020 review of hostage policy by the James W Foley Legacy Foundation. Great input from Peter Bergen of New America Foundation and CNN, Diane Foley,… Read More ›

• Bringing Americans Home 2020

  By rachelbriggs on April 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  The James W Foley Legacy Foundation has launched its second annual review of US Government handling of hostages cases. Bringing Americans Home 2020 is based on interviews with 25 people with direct experience of hostage taking or wrongful detention, both those… Read More ›

• david alexander – a life of service

  By rachelbriggs on January 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  David Alexander was one of the finest professionals I have ever worked with. He strived for the highest standards for the patients and partners he worked with and was never shy of standing his ground when he felt things weren’t… Read More ›

• time for technology companies to do their bit in fight against violent extremism

  By rachelbriggs on May 7, 2015 • ( 0 )

  I’m quoted in this excellent Radio Four documentary on the use of social media by violent extremist groups, such as ISIS. For too long, the big technology companies have thrown tiny bits of money at the problem as a cover… Read More ›

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