I passed calculus with forty four out of a hundred. My tutor, the one who taught me everything I knew, failed the exact same paper. Strange story to open with, I know. But it's the reason I think most leadership advice skips a step. It hands you outcomes, the vision, the strategy, the culture deck, without ever teaching the order things need to happen in. Protect first. Understand power and where things come from second. Choose plurality over division third. Make the most of

You can be analytically sharp, emotionally literate, technically fluent, and still walk into a room and make the exact same mistake you made three years ago. Because you are pulling from the same drawer every time, the same framework, the same cultural reference point, the same mental model you learnt from the same type of person who learnt it from someone very similar to them.

Ever notice how most leadership books treat language skills as a “nice to have” rather than a “must-have”? If you’re a linguist, this...

Leadership through languages sits at the intersection of the four core domains of applied linguistics, applied psychology, political...