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title: Insights | Emily Dent
description: Check out our insights on innovation, transformation, strategy and design.
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# Posts by Emily Dent

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### The hidden engine of innovation: why your network helps you see around corners

 If you’re leading innovation, here’s the hard truth: your time spent cultivating a broad, generous network isn’t “networking”, it’s R&D. Every...

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### Leading with SUN: How to create an environment where new ideas flourish

 The SUN model of leadership—Suspend Judgement, Understand, and Nurture Thinking—offers a practical framework for cultivating a culture of ideation and...

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### The Essential Skill of Curiosity: Why Future-Ready Leaders Must Learn to Wonder Again

 As leaders, we often speak about strategy, innovation, and execution as the cornerstones of performance. But there’s a quieter, more foundational skill...

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### Leadership lessons from the Year of the Wood Snake

 The zodiac animal for this Lunar New Year is the snake, combined with the element of wood. What can it teach us about leadership in 2025?

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### Webinar – Macmillan on innovating a heritage brand

 Innovation isn’t and shouldn’t ever be a ‘nice to have’ – especially when it comes to safeguarding a heritage brand.

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[ Experimentation ](https://andus.co/insights/tag/experimentation) [ Work culture ](https://andus.co/insights/tag/work-culture)

### Webinar – how to harness your organisation's purpose for growth

 Join our webinar to discover how purpose is a cornerstone of an innovation culture, and how to uncover and embed yours to supercharge growth.

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### Progress - a quiet rebellion

 What it takes to make progress with impact in an uncertain world full of pandemics, climate armageddon and political upheaval.

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### Meet the team - Emily Dent, Partner

 Emily is on a mission to build &us into a rebel alliance that can really make an impact in the world. What set Emily on this course?

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