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Issue 015: The Happiness Paradox

5 Findings, 3 Playbooks, and a 4-tool Toolkit built from the UK Workplace Happiness Report 2026 — no live guest this week, just the data.

Issue 014: Built for the Job

5 Plays · 3 Playbooks · 1 Spotlight ft. Dr Charlotte Aldred

Issue 013: The Interior Job

Five culture plays on leaders changing themselves first, three micro-playbooks on convening versus commanding, and Jeremy Reeves' first appearance on TWL Live.

Issue 012: The Talent Pipeline That Doesn't Exist Yet

Five plays on companies building talent pipelines for jobs that didn't exist five years ago, three micro-playbooks on wage spikes, and Paragraf's first double guest.

Issue 011: Beyond the Duvet Day

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a leader spotlight on mental health support that survives contact with a shift nobody's watching — and how to close the gap.

Issue 010: The One-Brain Office

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a leader spotlight on the RTO wave colliding with how a fifth of the workforce thinks — and what to do about it.

Issue 009: The Access Gap

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a story from the news standing in for this week's Leader Spotlight — the hiring systems closing the disability employment gap, and the ones being sued for widening it.

Issue 008: The Culture Gap

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a leader spotlight on the gap between the culture leaders claim and the one their people actually live — and what it takes to close it before someone else finds it for you.

Issue 007: What Leaders Think They See

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a leader spotlight on what leadership dashboards get wrong about AI rollouts — and how to see what your team is actually living through.

Issue 006: The Human Moat

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a leader spotlight on why culture is winning the AI talent war — and what to do about it whatever your budget.

Issue 005: The price of looking fine

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a leader spotlight on the gap between looking fine and being fine — and what to catch in your best people before burnout does.

Issue 004: The silence nobody budgets for

Five culture plays, three micro-playbooks, and a leader spotlight on what bad rejections actually cost — and how to fix the process before it costs you more.

Issue 003: The AI numbers nobody's checking

5 plays, 3 playbooks, 1 spotlight on responsible AI leadership

Issue 002: The AI reckoning nobody in HR is having

5 plays, 3 playbooks, 1 spotlight on responsible AI leadership

Issue 001: Real leadership moves you can copy this week