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Papers, reports and conversations from Matthew Byrne and the people who collaborate with him on The 5th Revolution.
FEATURED RESEARCH
The White Whale Report 2026
The state of the Human–AI transition, drawn from 1,500+ source-audited cases. AI is moving faster than the human capability around it.
Matthew Byrne · 6 Oct 2026
THE LIBRARY
Every publication, in one place
Podcasts
6 Oct 2026
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…
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Podcasts
6 Oct 2026
Leadership is Not Rocket Science: Episode Two
This is an ILD Series to generate interest for a community of practice (COP)
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Podcasts
6 Oct 2026
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…
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Podcasts
6 Oct 2026
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…
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Podcasts
6 Oct 2026
Leadership is Not Rocket Science: Building Relational Trust
The world is moving from transactional trust to relational trust most leaders have built good practices around transactional trust, and have ignored relational trust today…
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Podcasts
6 Oct 2026
Leadership is Not Rocket Science: The Value of Trust
Why have trust at all when building trust can take time and effort which we don’t have in our fast paced world. We discuss the…
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Podcasts
15 Nov 2025
Inside Scoop Live: Mutuality – The Future of Trust
Mutuality: the Future of Trust: The Executive’s Handbook, Enabling Mutuality to Cognitively Transform Organisations In today’s organizations and society, two major challenges stand out: declining…
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Podcasts
6 Nov 2025
Deep Dive into Building Mutuality – Podcast
In today’s organisational landscape and wider society, two critical challenges loom large: the erosion of trust and the imperative to adapt our current work approaches…
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FOR COLLABORATORS
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