The AI Readiness Gap Is a Trust Gap Leaders Created
The AI Readiness Gap Is a Trust Gap Leaders Created The Readiness Gap Is a Trust Gap 77% of organisations […]
AI, Executive Coaching, Leadership
Parallel Intelligence: The New Leadership Mandate for an AI-Paced World
In 2026, two studies landed within months of each other and drew the same conclusion from opposite angles. DDI’s Global
AI, Future of Work, Leadership
Same AI. Very Different Results.
McKinsey’s latest AI data confirms what we see in boardrooms across APAC: productivity gains are real but conditional. The organisations moving fastest are treating AI as an organisation design challenge, not a technology upgrade.
AI, Communication Strategy, Crisis Management, Leadership
If Your AI Strategy Doesn’t Include a Communication Strategy, You Only Have Half a Strategy
The augmentation story is real, documented, and measurable. It almost never makes the news. That silence is not neutral — it is being filled by fear. And the organisations best placed to fix it are largely not doing so.
AI, Crisis Management, Leadership
The Language of Disposability
Three corporate communications in the same week — StanChart, Meta, Omnicom — and a question that keeps coming back: have the people making these decisions genuinely reckoned with the human cost?
AI, Future of Work
Why Perplexity Computer Changes the AI Tool Conversation
Most leaders evaluate AI tools the wrong way. The question is not ‘can this do what I already do?’ but ‘does this change what I can reasonably attempt?’ Perplexity Computer answers that question affirmatively for a specific category of work.
AI, Future of Work, Leadership, Solopreneurship
What AI Is Really Doing for Solopreneurs
The operational overhead that once made going independent daunting is no longer the barrier it was. But the barrier now is knowing how to direct these tools, not just deploy them.
AI, Future of Work, Leadership
The Barbell Strategy: Get as Close to AI and as Far Away as Possible
The more I use AI, the more human I have had to become. The barbell strategy means concentrating at the extremes — and most leaders are getting it exactly backwards.
AI, Executive Coaching, Leadership
The Question Boards Should Be Asking About AI
Something is splitting the executive class in two, and most organisations have not named it clearly yet. The gap between AI chat users and AI builders is growing \u2014 and the distance is invisible to the people inside it.
Crisis Management, Leadership
The Answer Person Can’t Lead a Crisis
The CEO walked into the war room, listened for about ninety seconds, and started issuing instructions. Legal holds. Holding statement.