Month: March 2025
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Winning the race before it starts
I featured a case study in my most recent newsletter which focused on the theme of changing how the game is played – learning from sports, culture and business examples where the protagonist had flipped the script to rethink norms and gain
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Technology, functional drift, and collective blind spots
I recently came across a news article which reported that Health New Zealand, the primary publicly funded body set up by the New Zealand government to oversee their healthcare system was using a single Excel spreadsheet to track $28 Billion of public money. An
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Should we learn like an athlete?
‘Knowledge workers should train like LeBron, and implement strict “learning plans.” To be sure, intellectual life is different from basketball. Success is harder to measure and the metrics for improvement aren’t quite as clear. Even then, there’s a lot to learn from
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The Shamrock Organisation
Something like fourteen years ago (crikey) I wrote about the concept of the shamrock organisation, and it’s something I’ve found myself coming back to, notably in my thinking around agentic AI. In the late 80s Charles Handy, in his book The Age
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The Agentic Organisation (redux)
I really believe that AI agents are going to upend everything from organisation design, to strategy formulation and execution, to workflows, to how we interact with data, to how people get stuff done. It’s going to bring such fundamental change that we
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On the value of ignorance
I loved listening to Rory Stewart’s podcast series on the long history of ignorance. It’s a wonderfully thought-provoking and counter-intuitive premise for an intellectual exploration and Stewart delivers it well. In the series he makes the argument for how we should embrace ignorance