Journal

Perspective. Commentary. Ideas.

Sam Marriott-Dowding 10/20/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 10/20/26

Big Firms Have Scale, But Is Scale What Leaders Need?

Sam Marriott-Dowding 10/1/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 10/1/26

Communications Belongs in the C-Suite

Sam Marriott-Dowding 9/22/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 9/22/26

Shaping Policy as a Competitive Advantage

Sam Marriott-Dowding 9/16/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 9/16/26

Geography Is Not Destiny

Sam Marriott-Dowding 9/6/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 9/6/26

The Personalisation of Geopolitics

Sam Marriott-Dowding 8/24/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 8/24/26

Humanity Is the New Luxury

Sam Marriott-Dowding 8/17/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 8/17/26

The Discipline of Judgement

Sam Marriott-Dowding 8/2/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 8/2/26

I Couldn't Find a Seat at the Table, So I Built My Own

Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/27/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/27/26

In Conversation With Graeme Miller

Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/22/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/22/26

Reputation Is No Longer a Marketing Outcome, It’s an Organisational Asset

Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/7/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/7/26

Designer Exchange Puts Newcastle Back in Fashion

Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/1/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 7/1/26

Why We No Longer Call Ourselves a PR Agency

Sam Marriott-Dowding 6/8/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 6/8/26

In Conversation With Benjamin Lloyd

Sam Marriott-Dowding 5/12/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 5/12/26

A Smarter Way to Grow

Sam Marriott-Dowding 5/6/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 5/6/26

Are We Entering a Permanently Unstable World?

Sam Marriott-Dowding 4/17/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 4/17/26

The Business of Risk

Sam Marriott-Dowding 4/8/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 4/8/26

Words of War: Power, Truth and Trust in a Fractured World

Sam Marriott-Dowding 3/24/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 3/24/26

Tantara: The New Bistro Bringing a Taste of Bengal to Jesmond

Sam Marriott-Dowding 2/10/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 2/10/26

The Cost-of-Silence Crisis

Sam Marriott-Dowding 1/8/26 Sam Marriott-Dowding 1/8/26

Musings of a CEO: 5 Years of MC