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Transform Your Leadership with Good Leader, Bad Leader

21 Monday Sep 2026

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Step Out of the Management Trap

ARE YOU LEADING OR JUST HOLDING THE TITLE?

  • Why do brilliant teams fail under toxic bosses?
  • What turns a promising executive into a organizational disaster?
  • How do you build authority that survives crisis and uncertainty?
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Transform Your Leadership Style with ‘Good Leader, Bad Leader’

21 Monday Sep 2026

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Business Books, Executive Coaching, leadership, Management, organisational-culture

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Step Out of the Management Trap

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NEW BOOK BY MARTYN JONES CHALLENGES THE CORPORATE LEADERSHIP MYTH

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Understanding Good vs Bad Leadership

21 Monday Sep 2026

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Book cover titled 'Good Leader Bad Leader' by Martyn Jones, featuring bold typography divided diagonally with contrasting colours, accompanied by the tagline 'The difference and why it counts'.

Step Out of the Management Trap

Leadership books are everywhere, yet real leadership has never felt rarer. In Good Leader, Bad Leader, veteran strategist and sharp-eyed commentator Martyn Jones cuts through the sanitized corporate clichés to deliver an electrifying, unvarnished look at what actually drives executive success—and what triggers disastrous failure.

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Laughing at Tech Hype: A Survival Manual for Data Professionals

20 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Business Books, data-strategy, Enterpriuse Data, IT Project Failure, Tech Hype, Tech Satire

El Jueves y la Puta Mili
El Jueves y la Puta Mili

Laughing@Data.Com (often discussed alongside The 2030 Data Agenda essays and writings) is a satirical and polemical book by veteran data architect and consultant Martyn Rhisiart Jones.

Part memoir, part industry autopsy, and part manifesto, the book takes a witty and sharp look at the absurdity of the IT and enterprise data world. Rather than being another standard tech guide, it functions as a survival manual for anyone dealing with corporate tech hype cycles.

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Book Review: Revealing Wealth by Martyn Richard Jones – A Tech Solution to Tax Evasion

20 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Business Books, data architecture, data mesh, Entity Resolution, Financial Transparency, Tax evasion

Book cover for 'Revealing Wealth' by Martyn Jones and Afilonius Rex, focused on combating global tax evasion using data, political will, and technology.

Meta-Meta Description: Discover how data architecture, data meshes, and entity resolution can end offshore tax evasion in Martyn Jones’s fascinating, educational, entertaining and informative book, Revealing Wealth.

Every year, an estimated $480 billion in tax revenue is lost to offshore accounts, shell companies, and opaque trusts. While investigative leaks like the Panama Papers periodically expose illicit financial flows, enterprise data architect Martyn Richard Jones argues that relying on whistleblowers is not enough.

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Unmasking Trillions: How Data Architecture Can Solve Global Tax Evasion

20 Sunday Sep 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain.

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Business Books, data architecture, data mesh, Entity Resolution, Financial Transparency, Tax evasion

Glowing central network connecting six distributed data platforms
A glowing central network connects distributed data platforms through colorful digital pathways.

Unmasking Trillions: How Data Architecture Can Solve Global Tax Evasion

Every year, an estimated $480 billion in tax revenue vanishes into thin air—funnelled through a labyrinth of shell companies, hidden bank accounts, and anonymous trusts. In 2016, the world watched in awe as the Panama Papers leaked 11.5 million financial documents, exposing the secretive offshore holdings of world leaders, billionaires, and celebrities. But while investigative journalists rely on luck and whistleblowers to expose these scandals, data architect Martyn Rhisiart Jones offers a permanent solution in his book, Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology.

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Revealing Hidden Wealth through Data Solutions

20 Sunday Sep 2026

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Business Books, data architecture, data mesh, Entity Resolution, Financial Transparency, Tax evasion

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Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology is a book by enterprise data architect and consultant Martyn Richard Jones.

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GS PODCAST: Uncovering Tax Evasion: Insights from ‘Revealing Wealth’ – Book Review

22 Saturday Aug 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in technology, The Guardian, The hidden wealth of nations

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Business Books, data architecture, Financial Transparency, Global Governance, Podcast, Tax evasion

Pip: Hidden fortunes, opaque shell companies, and the quiet question of why governments with access to the most powerful data tools in history still can’t … or won’t… track where the money goes. That’s the territory Martyn Jones has been mapping.

Mara: This episode follows his work on tax evasion, financial transparency, and the case that this is fundamentally a data problem… and that the tools to solve it already exist. Let’s start with the book at the centre of it all.

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IT’S POLITICS: Uncovering Tax Evasion: Insights from ‘Revealing Wealth’ – Book Review

22 Saturday Aug 2026

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Inform, educate and entertain., offshore, Offshoring

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Business Books, data architecture, Financial Transparency, Global Governance, Podcast, Tax evasion

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IT’S POLITICS: Uncovering Tax Evasion: Insights from ‘Revealing Wealth’ – Book Review

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Book Review: Revealing Wealth: Combatting Tax Evasion with Data, Political Will and Technology by Martyn Jones

In an age defined by algorithms, trillion-dollar tech companies, and data flowing across borders at the speed of light, one of the oldest problems in civilisation persists: how the wealthy avoid paying their share of tax. In Revealing Wealth, Martyn Jones argues that the real scandal is not simply that tax evasion exists, but that in a data-rich world we still allow it to thrive.

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Big Data and the 7 Habits of a Highly Successful Catalan Sheepdog – Remastering for 2026

06 Monday Oct 2014

Posted by Martyn Rhisiart Jones in Big Data, Executive, Knowledge

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Big Data, Big Data Hype, Business Books, Corporate Jargon, data analytics, Satire, Strategy, Survivorship Bias, Tech Satire

Martyn Richard Jones

Remaster 2026

Hi, I’m Ricky Jonesy-Innit, boss of Becci Boo Investments.

Last week, we said goodbye to our best commodity trader.

He’d been with us for years.

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