Mattering: The Missing Variable at Work
Mattering is the felt sense of being valued and of adding value. It sounds soft until you watch what happens when it disappears from a team mid-transition. As AI absorbs tasks, the question underneath every desk becomes sharper: do I still matter here? Leaders who answer that clearly — with real pathways, not reassurance — […]
Redeployment Before Redundancy
When automation becomes available, the fastest path to a headline saving is to cut roles. The research suggests it is also the fastest path to social-licence loss — 55% of leaders who made AI-related redundancies later believed they made the wrong decision. HI Accreditation rewards organisations that decompose and redesign work before pursuing redundancy, and […]
The White Whale, in Brief
The White Whale is the longitudinal AI implementation segmentation research project behind The 5th Revolution — 1,500+ source-audited AI transition cases tracked across a five-phase arc. The gap between accelerating AI and lagging human capability predicts the severity of what follows with a correlation of 0.86. Organisations that built human capability by design arrived with […]
Why AI Feels So Scary — and What Leaders Can Do About It
The anxiety around AI isn’t irrational. It has arrived in exactly the territory we have long used to define human worth — language, judgement, synthesis, the making of meaning. Leaders who dismiss that fear lose people. Leaders who name it, and then show a credible path where human capability is developed rather than displaced, keep […]
Trust Is the Real Infrastructure of the AI Era
Technology is installed. Trust is built. That distinction is easy to say and hard to live, because the second one has no shortcut and no vendor. The Mutuality Framework names six trust archetypes and six obstacles — replacing the vague instruction to “build trust” with something you can see, diagnose and work on. Measured through […]
AI Is the Engine. Human Intelligence Is the Driver.
The arrival of powerful AI has handed every organisation a faster engine. The temptation is to press the accelerator and see how far it goes. But an engine without a capable driver doesn’t win the race — it crashes sooner. Across the White Whale research, the same shape appeared in every failure: the technology accelerating […]
The Barbershop Chronicles: Relationships & Mutuality
What conversations do you have with your hairdresser or barber. Vic from Clippers & Whiskey has conversations around Mutuality and Relational Trust. If you are interested in reading more the book Mutuality the Future of Trust is available at https://lnkd.in/ggh8X3XJ
Leadership is Not Rocket Science: Episode Two
This is an ILD Series to generate interest for a community of practice (COP)
Leadership is Not Rocket Science: Episode One
This is the first podcast in this series that explores the Strategy Task and people model. We explore where leadership get stuck and why we are not great leaders because we are over focused on task and through this have eroded valuable time to build capability in others and lead our people into the future.
Leadership is Not Rocket Science: Political Nous
Politics are the achilles heal of most managers and they develop a disliking for politics because most of us have been on the wrong end of politics. As a leader political nous is an essential skill that needs to be developed to build resilience and success in work where people are competing for scarce resources.