The World Is in a Funk. It’s Not Permanent, and It’s Not Random.
Only 41% of people worldwide think their country is on the right track. Morris Misel on why the pessimism isn’t universal, and what history says comes next.
The Leadership Pipeline Isn’t Broken. We Deleted It.
We automated entry-level work and eliminated middle management in the same window. In doing so, we deleted the corporate classroom and the teacher. Here’s what arrives next, and why the organisations that feel most efficient right now may be the least prepared for 2029.
Outputs, Not Inputs: What I Said in 2016, and What 1,178 AI Researchers Just Confirmed
In 2016, at a keynote in Perth, I said the real question was never the technology. It was outputs, not inputs. Ten years later, the researchers building the world’s most powerful AI just confirmed it, in a letter to their own governments.
What’s Actually Happening When AI Arrives at Your Organisation
The first-order effect is always visible. You announce the adoption. You deploy the tool. The headlines talk about the efficiency gain. The quarterly numbers improve. But the ripple effects are what nobody talks about. I was on Curtin FM with Jenny Seaton last week talking about this. What happens in organisations when AI arrives isn’t […]
In 2019 I Said Human First. Organisations Heard ‘Efficient Last.’
In 2019, I dedicated a year’s speaking to rehumanising technology and putting humans first. In 2026, organisations are eliminating the management layer that was supposed to make Human First real. The leadership pipeline consequences are arriving now.
The Checking Tax
77% of leaders spend nearly as long verifying AI outputs as generating them. The Checking Tax is the invisible cost in every AI business case — and Decision Trust Zones is the governance fix that closes the gap.
