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People and Culture

Employees Think Their Jobs Will Be Gone in Five Years, so They're Waiting

23% of employees at AI-adopting companies expect their job to be eliminated within five years, so they're staying.

People Managing People • David Rice

How Leaders Create the Conditions for Innovative Thinking

A conversation with Harvard Business School’s Linda Hill on why even visionaries need to make space for collaboration and trust.

Harvard Business Review

PD Book: The Intelligence Era Organisation

Free download: This book by Adam Maddison explores how senior leaders can get real results from AI investment, instead of treating it as a quick fix.

public.digital/pd-book-creating-the-conditions-to-thrive-in-the-age-of-ai

Prevent Team Friction from Turning into Dysfunction

The strongest teams don’t succeed because they avoid conflict—they succeed because they understand how teammates process information, communicate under pressure, and approach decisions differently.

Harvard Business Review • Leonard A. Schlesinger, Joseph Fuller and Robert V. Toomey

Organisations and Systems

Starbucks’ AI Failure Wasn’t Really About AI - in a Nutshell | Dandy People

When Starbucks recently retired its AI-powered inventory management system after only nine months, many headlines framed it as another example of AI failing in the real world. We think that misses the…

Dandy People • Mia Kolmodin

Employee Engagement Action Plan: Lessons From 10 Years of Data

80% of the global workforce is disengaged. That's not a typo. According to Gallup , eight out of ten people are just going through the motions at work.…

Corporate Rebels • Pim de Morree

The Human Leadership Premium Organizations are Actively Devaluing

As AI absorbs transactional work, human leadership becomes scarcer and more valuable. Organizations are stripping it from their ranks anyway.

People Managing People • Josh Barker

Facilitation and Decision making

Our Favorite Management Tips on Decision-Making

Our Management Tip of the Day newsletter continues to be one of HBR’s most popular newsletters. In this article, we’ve compiled 10 of our favorite tips on decision-making, from how to make choices under pressure to how to lead with clarity and care when every option feels risky.

Harvard Business Review • HBR Editors

Approaches for Teams

How to Diagnose the Bottlenecks In Your Team to Reduce Cycle Time, Part 2

In How to Use Value Stream Maps to See Where AI Creates Bottlenecks Part 1, I described three teams that used LLMs. However, those teams only used LLMs as individuals, reinforcing resource-efficiency thinking instead of flow-efficiency thinking. (Resource efficiency makes everything take longer because of the focus on the individual. Flow efficiency allows the work […]

Johanna Rothman • Johanna Rothman

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