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Your team is converging and you can’t see it
Earlier this year I watched a senior leader lose a room in about ten minutes. They had brought work to present to a group whose opinion mattered. The work was AI generated. They never said so, and nobody needed to run it through a detector, because the room did what...
Why your senior leadership team is struggling (it’s rarely the people)
Every senior leadership team is a concentrated version of the organisation around it. If the business is in flux or out of line, the team will be under pressure, whatever the individuals are like. I've come to treat this as the starting point for any team work,...
Running on reserves: where judgement comes from, and why we’ve stopped making it
Last time I argued that AI didn't get rid of the cost of knowledge work, it moved it. The saving you make on producing the work turns up again as the cost of checking it, and checking is now the thing everything else waits for. Which leaves a question I dodged: if...
Faster, but not better: what AI is really doing to management
Almost every leadership team I see is quicker than it was a year ago, and being quicker hasn’t made most of them better. I’ve sat in enough rooms over the last twelve months to know the pattern: more work going out of the door, produced faster, by people who feel...
Psychological safety isn’t about being nice
Most HR directors I work with have, at some point, commissioned work on psychological safety. The survey gets run, the workshops happen, the team's scores improve. Six months later, the executive team is still avoiding the difficult conversation they need to have. Or,...
Burnout – The Silent Killer of Executive Effectiveness
Ambitious, high-achieving leaders are often seen as invincible – until burnout brings them to a breaking point. Burnout is more than feeling tired or stressed; it’s a chronic occupational syndrome defined by three dimensions: overwhelming exhaustion, cynicism or...
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