Future of work

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. Attention 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...

The True Cost of the Attention Economy 

In 1991, the World Wide Web became publicly available. In the decades since, the accelerating pace of digital progress has transformed how we live, work and relate. Now, in 2026, we’re checking our email before we check on our kids,...

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  —...

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...

Don’t Kill the Golden Goose: What’s Really at Stake in the Race to Realise Value from AI 

There’s an old Aesop fable about a farmer with a goose that laid a single golden egg each day. Impatient for more, he killed the goose to get all the gold at once. He found nothing. In trying to extract maximum value, he...

From Outputs to Impact: What Becomes More Valuable When AI Makes Production Cheap

Value has always followed what is hardest to replicate.  For decades, production was the constraint. Competitive advantage came from producing more, faster, at lower cost. That logic shaped how organisations were designed, what they measured, and what they came to...

Regenerative Leadership: Thriving in a World of Disruption 

Most of us, either directly or indirectly, have experienced the disruption of a natural disaster. Increasing in frequency and intensity, these events create enormous upheaval as well as fear and anxiety about the future.  If, however, we take the time...