Posts by Dr. Chris Rowell

Defragging Teams: Rewiring Team Attention

Whether consciously or not, we’ve all experienced the woes of team fragmentation. The meeting that covers everything and decides nothing. The group chat that never stops. The talented people who are always busy and never quite available. And underneath it...

Attentional Sovereignty: Reclaiming Your Attention 

Attention shapes how you experience your life. It determines what you notice, what stays with you and what passes unseen. As we discovered in Article 1, much of it is claimed before you choose: by notifications, other people’s requests, unresolved...

Strategic Capability Development in the Age of AI 

AI does not make human capability less important. It changes which human capabilities matter most.  AI is reshaping how work gets done. Tasks that once required time, expertise, and coordination can increasingly be completed by intelligent systems, faster, cheaper, and...

The Human Edge: Leading and Thriving in The Age of AI

The real constraint in the race to realise value from AI is not the technology. It is human capacity.  Workflows are being reimagined. Roles are being redesigned. Operating models are being reshaped. Yet the essential work still sits with us  —...

The Leadership Shift in Disguise: What AI Transformation is Really Asking of Us

Human capacity is the real constraint in the race to realise value from AI. Technology is evolving rapidly and in parallel, organisations are reimagining workflows, redesigning roles, and reshaping operating models. Yet for any of this to translate into meaningful...

Making the Leap: We Can’t Just Assume People Can Do the “Human Stuff”

In 2016, Wells Fargo was fined $185 million after it emerged that employees had opened more than 3.5 million fraudulent accounts without customer consent.1 The story made headlines as a scandal of corporate greed and individual misconduct, but beneath the headlines was a deeper...