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  <description><![CDATA[Silent Anchor Hub is a one-person consultancy run by Ruth Padgett. Strategy, decision support, and workshop facilitation for small teams and founders. Based in Birmingham.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why founders avoid hard decisions and what to do about it]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ruth has worked with enough founders to notice a pattern. The hard decision is almost never the one they describe in the first email. It is usually one layer underneath, and the reason it has not been made is not lack of information. It is something more uncomfortable than that.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:48:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to run a strategy day that actually works]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ruth has facilitated a lot of strategy days. Some of them were genuinely useful. Some produced a wall of Post-it notes that nobody looked at again after the train home. The difference between the two is almost never the quality of the people in the room. It is almost always the quality of the preparation and the structure.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:24:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What makes a good advisory relationship actually work]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ruth has been in advisory relationships that worked well and ones that quietly stopped being useful without either party quite acknowledging it. The difference is usually not chemistry or expertise. It is structure, and specifically whether both parties are honest about what they need from the relationship at each stage.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:10:22 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to write a one-page strategy that is actually useful]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[The one-page strategy has become a bit of a cliche, which is a shame, because the underlying idea is sound. If you cannot describe your strategic direction on a single page, you probably do not have a clear strategic direction yet. The page is not the goal; the clarity is. The page is just the test.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:25:24 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[When to hire a consultant and when not to]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ruth has turned down work. Not often, but it happens. Sometimes a potential client describes a situation where the most honest thing she can say is: you do not need a consultant, you need to make a decision and live with it for six months. This is a guide to telling the difference.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 21:21:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Decision-making habits that actually help small teams]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Small teams make a lot of decisions. Most of them are fine. A handful of them, made badly or not made at all, cause most of the problems. The goal is not to make every decision perfectly; it is to make the important ones well and stop the unimportant ones from taking up the same amount of time.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:21:11 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to brief a consultant so you get something useful back]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Ruth has received a lot of briefs. Some of them were clear, specific, and made the work significantly easier. Some were four pages long and contained almost no useful information. The difference is not length. It is knowing what a brief is actually for.]]></description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:10:05 GMT</pubDate>
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