Major consulting firms increasingly seem to think so. The pendulum has clearly shifted from “Every company needs a CAIO” to “The CEO must lead AI.” As someone who has long…
Many of the conditions that make empowerment and agility possible have been cast as organizational villains. Structure is treated as bureaucracy.Hierarchy as silos.Clear roles as constraints.Standardization as rigidity.Stability as stagnation.…
I was pleased to contribute my perspective alongside CEOs from companies including SEPHORA, American Express, Rocket, Anduril Industries, and many others in Fast Company‘s latest look at what excites and…
The narrative is wrong. AI is not killing jobs—at least not in Marketing. Org.Works and Cordial conducted a survey of 100 retail marketing leaders, and findings suggest growth in marketing…
The conversation around 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 is largely focused on third-party AI assistants helping consumers search, compare products, and complete transactions. That’s certainly part of what’s coming. But what happens 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚…
Jack Dorsey (yes, from Block and Twitter fame) and Roelof Botha‘s article, “From Hierarchy to Intelligence” (link in comments below), is one of the most thoughtful perspectives on hierarchy and…
𝗥𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗺𝗮𝘆 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. A new meta-analysis in the June 2026 volume of Journal of Vocational Behavior reviewed 515 studies across nearly…
Jeff Bezos may be right about AI productivity. But productivity doesn’t scale through organizational confusion. Bezos said last week in a CNBC Squawk Box interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin that…
The new narrative:1️⃣ Eliminate entry-level roles.2️⃣ Flatten middle management.3️⃣ Let AI handle the rest. I’m exaggerating (but only slightly). This is what’s being framed as “workforce reshaping.” Here’s the problem:…
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