When Trust Breaks Down in Organisations, It’s Never the Trust That Broke
AUSTRAC found the same names across unrelated loan files. When trust breaks down in organisations it’s never the trust that broke. It’s the layer nobody checks.
I Was Wrong About the Middle
A permit clerk in Washington DC decided last month that part of the public footpath now belongs to a commercial robot fleet. Nobody voted on it. No board paper was written. No strategy session preceded it. A clerk, doing a job, processed a form, and the street changed. I want to sit on that clerk […]
The World’s Fastest-Growing Megacities Are Now in Africa, and the Ripple Effects Are Already Here
Of today’s 100 largest cities, only 24 will still be growing by 2100. Twelve are in Africa. Morris Misel on the ripple effects of the world’s urban gravity shift, and what it means for Australian organisations.
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.
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.
