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Monday reflection: Leading through the fog

  There are times in everyone's leadership journey where the path ahead is clear,  targets are well defined, momentum is strong, and decisions feel straightforward. And then everything changes. The fog can arrive quietly. A changing economy, weaker markets and customer orders. Political uncertainty. Personal doubt. You can’t see the whole road anymore, only the next few steps ahead.  For many leaders, this is uncomfortable territory because leadership often comes with the pressure to always appear certain and surefooted. But leadership is rarely about having perfect visibility of the way forward, the future. It’s about continuing to move with clarity of purpose knowing the goals you want to achieve and even when clarity of outcome is missing. Leading through the fog requires a different kind of confidence, not confidence that everything will work out exactly as planned, but confidence that you can navigate uncertainty without losing direction. In these moments, people ...
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Another river... great to be at SAS in Marlow

Last week I was at SAS Marlow taking part in a student Dragon's Den event as one of the dragons...the river looked beautiful.  
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Paper published...

  Great to see our paper - SSTLNetwork: a self-supervised spectral reconstruction network with hybrid attention for near-infrared spectral transfer learning published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. Do check it out.
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Monday reflection: Its a Bank Holiday...

  It's a bank holiday so great to slow down a little...
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Top viewed article..

  Top viewed article... Great to see that my paper "Responsible innovation: Mitigating the food safety aspects of cultured meat" production was one of the top viewed articles of 2025 in the Journal of Food Science. Do check it out
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Paper been cited over 400 times..

  My paper cowritten with Jan Mei Soon-Sinclair and published in 2016 has just been cited for the 400th time!  Manning, L., & Soon, J. M. (2016). Food safety, food fraud, and food defense: a fast evolving literature. Journal of Food Science, 81(4), R823-R834. Do check it out
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Monday reflection: Building something that matters.

  Clarity is powerful, but only if it can inform the pathway to definite outcomes and impact. In leadership, insight that encourages activity without action is a missed opportunity. Building something that matters requires focus, alignment, prioritisation. Then progress can become purposeful, not simply performative. Leaders often feel pressure to move fast, to deliver visible short-term results. But meaningful impact rarely comes from rushed decisions or reactive effort. It comes from steady, considered action rooted in clarity and purpose. This is where leadership shifts the dial from simply reacting to noise to creating value. From reacting to shaping. From activity to impact. In the end, what you build is a reflection of what you chose to focus on, what really matters, and is worth the effort.
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