Legacy back-office tech isn't a technical debt problem; it's a human flourishing problem. It actively repels the talent you need to build the future and strangles the curiosity required for innovation. Your ERP is your culture, codified. Choose wisely. #FutureOfWork

BCG's new piece points to "agent-led orchestration" as #AI's next step. When AI executes, the uniquely human contribution becomes strategic and ethical oversight. A profound shift for leaders. #AIStrategy #Leadership #FutureOfWork

The argument that AI won't create sustainable advantage is correct. It's a commoditising force that learns from first-movers and shares the spoils. This is good news. It forces us to stop looking for durable value in tech and start finding it in what AI cannot copy: our humanity.

Giving staff AI tools creates noise. Real innovation needs a system to select and amplify good ideas. The tool is easy. The leadership to build the system is the actual work. buff.ly/zpnqCYQ #Innovation #Leadership #OrgDesign

The real promise of AI isn't automation, but augmentation. It frees people from repetitive tasks to focus on creativity and complex problem-solving. This demands a shift from jobs to skills, with HR as the architect of a more human-centric, flourishing workplace. buff.ly/MPcq0ST #AI #FutureOfWork

The EU #AI Act isn't a tax on innovation; it's a leadership test. Most see a compliance hurdle. See instead a rare opportunity to build a competitive moat made of trust. Proactively embedding fairness and transparency into high-risk AI is how technology becomes a humanising force.

AI's default setting is to reinforce the silos that kill productivity. When departments deploy AI tactically, they create friction and conflicting goals. Leaders must intentionally build a unified strategy, using AI not just for isolated gains, but to connect people and purpose.

Will have to read this one today -> Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/29/g...

AI's greatest strength is its core limitation. It is designed to predict the most probable outcome, making it a powerful engine for generating the average. But human progress doesn't come from the average. It comes from challenging it.

AI was meant to boost productivity, but it's creating "workslop": content that looks good but is empty of substance. buff.ly/JMOZZqP #AI #Workslop #Productivity

Even with cheap seats, #UFC Perth will be half empty. Why? AFL Grand Final (Melbourne), NRL Finals (Sydney & Brisbane), Rugby Bledisloe Cup (Auckland). Whoever picked this date did not have the region in mind.

A leader's refusal to see unwelcome facts is not just bad strategy. It is a failure of respect for their people and for reality itself. Philosopher Mona Simion terms this 'resistance to evidence'—a cognitive malfunction that actively prevents a flourishing workplace. buff.ly/YRjXxWb #Leadership

The rush to replace entry-level jobs with AI confuses an expense with an investment. Junior roles aren't just for executing rote tasks; they are the foundry for your future leaders. The true value of AI is not replacement, but redesigning work to accelerate human judgment.

A new report shows the gap between AI principles and practice. Ethical governance isn't a brake, it's the steering wheel. It's how leaders ensure technology serves humanity. #AIEthics buff.ly/UYB8NPW

We're told #AI drives #innovation. New research finds it can do the opposite by reducing the human-to-human conversations that spark new ideas. A powerful mitigator? Not less AI, but more employee autonomy to decide how and when it's used. Trust people, not just tools.

95% of AI pilots fail. The reason isn't the tech, it's the leadership. Successful firms have shapers who prioritise human-centric strategy over mere deployment. They prove that making AI work isn't a technical challenge-it's a fundamentally human one. bit.ly/3KeiU63 #HumanReverence #AI #Leadership

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI's impact on white-collar jobs is coming fast and hard. Expect significant job changes within 1-5 years. This isn't hypothetical; it's already happening internally at AI companies. #AI #FutureOfWork m.youtube.com/watch?...

New research suggests we should focus on "communication actions," not the tools themselves. The medium doesn't matter as much as the human interaction it enables. Define the action, then choose the tool. #HumanReverence #FutureOfWork #HRTech www.sciencedirect.co...

The articles that made it into the latest edition of Philosophers Annual have been announced. #Philosophy dailynous.com/2025/0...

“A future without work could be much better than ours, overall. But, living in that world, or watching as our old ways passed away, we might still reasonably grieve the loss of the work that once was part of who we were” #TheFlourishingWorkplace #Philosophy scottaaronson.blog/?...

Piloting #GenAI is easy, but creating value is hard. That requires empowering employees to cocreate gen AI products against a North Star that redefines ways of working. #ArtificialIntelligence #TheFlourishingWorkplace www.mckinsey.com/cap...

Book review: "Concepts in Smart Societies' Next Generation of Human Resources and Technologies" via Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. #TheFlourishingWorkplace #HRTech #HRTechStrategy onlinelibrary.wiley....

New report from Infosys finds that almost all executives (95%) have experienced at least one type of problematic incident from their use of enterprise #AI. #ArtificialIntelligence www.infosys.com/iki/...

The A(I) Team: Effects of Human-Likeness and Conformity to Gender Stereotypes on Initial Trust and Willingness to Work With an AI Teammate. #HRTech #HRTechStrategy #TheFlourishingWorkplace onlinelibrary.wiley....

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said on the Lex Fridman podcast that Google are reintroducing at least one round of in-person interviews "just to make sure the fundamentals are there". #TheFlourishingWorkplace lexfridman.com/sunda...

Organisations increasingly seek benefits from #design and design thinking beyond product and service creation. In this paper, the authors extend the utilisation of design from offerings to #operations and #strategy. #TheFlourishingWorkplace #DesignThinking journals.sagepub.com...

$90M is a hefty penalty that Qantas will face over its decision to outsource more than 1,800 ground handling jobs during the #COVID pandemic. This is 75% of the maximum penalty ($121M). #IndustrialRelations #GeneralProtections www.abc.net.au/news/...

How Meta distributes compliance-related tasks at scale. #Privacy engineering.fb.com/2...

Insightful paper "Thirty Years of Meeting Science: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead" organising the body of literature into five key areas of inquiry. #Research #TheFlourishingWorkplace www.annualreviews.or...

Via the HBR IdeaCast Podcast - A conversation with the University of Texas’ Andrew Brodsky on improving our online—and offline—interactions. #HumanResources #RemoteWork #Communication #TheFlourishingWorkplace hbr.org/podcast/2025...

Insightful podcast episode over at @hbr.org Ideacast - Are You Optimizing Your Virtual Communication Practices? A conversation with the University of Texas’ Andrew Brodsky on improving our online—and offline—interactions. hbr.org/podcast/2025...

Via California Management Review (Open Access) - Profiting from AI: Evidence from Ericsson’s Pursuit to Capture Value. doi.org/10.1177/0008...

The Australian Productivity Commission were asked by the Australian Government to conduct an inquiry into Harnessing Data and Digital Technology. The interim report has been release this week. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Privacy www.pc.gov.au/inquir...

The High Court of Australia has today unanimously dismissed an appeal from a decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia relating to redundancies. This is an interesting one to read for all working in Human Resources in Australia. www.hcourt.gov.au/si...

The rapid rise of #GenAI highlights a workplace reality: Front lines often embrace new tech much faster than managers do. Here’s how to overcome organizational blocks to transformative ideas. www.mckinsey.com/cap...

This article over at BCG personally resonated - it discusses a reduction in cross-border employment-based mobility and where top talent is aggregating now. #HR #Human#Resources #Talent www.bcg.com/publicat...

This marketing piece over at Hi Bob isn't a bad look at how #Skills data could be used within a #HRtech platform to deliver business outcomes, but it's lacking with real-world examples. Likely because Skills integrations have not resulted in many meaningful outcomes. www.hibob.com/blog/s...

Well this one's not surprising - "Hiring is stuck in an AI doom loop". #HumanResources #Recruitment #AI www.hcamag.com/au/ne...

This article over at JoshBersin.com is a great read for HR professionals involved in any sort of data handling. #Data #Privacy #PeopleData joshbersin.com/2025/...

Talk of Wage Theft in Australia has been prevalent for a number of years, so it was refreshing to see this paper on the topic recently published in the journal "Human Resource Management Review". #WageTheft #HumanResources doi.org/10.1016/j.hr...

Sharing AHRI's new report that purports to highlight age-based employment barriers and a downward shift in the age at which workers are considered older I agree that age-based #discrimination is real, I don't agree that this report contributes to the conversation www.ahri.com.au/wp-c...

Really interesting piece on Policy Zone's within Meta's Privacy Aware Architecture. Will be of interest to anyone working in data privacy, be it Policy, tech, or administration. #DataPrivacy #DataTech #DataAdministration engineering.fb.com/2...

I'll be in #Sydney from today (Wednesday) through Friday this week at ServiceNow World Forum. Wednesday will be the Mining, Utilities, and Heavy Industry forum, and Thursday will be the Executive Circle. Be sure to say hi if you're around.

Now this is a piece on AI ethics I can get behind. Specific, well argued, and easy to consume. Via Markus Rüther at the blog of the @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. #Philosophy #AI #AIEthics #ArtificialIntelligence blog.apaonline.org/2...

Is AI rendering us subcognitive? Hollis Robbins and Anastasia Berg debate the place of artificial intelligence in higher education. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #HigherEducation #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfAI thepointmag.substack...

Research article: Leadership and Human Resource Management: Oil and Water in the Same Vessel. #HumanResources #Leadership #HRM onlinelibrary.wiley....

Pretty good overview of Rejig's new Work Architecture Platform over at Josh Bersin. #HRTech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #WorkDesign #JobDesign #FutureOfWork joshbersin.com/2025/...

This one's a good overview of Australia's new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy from a Human Resources lens. #HumanResources #HR #Privacy www.hrmonline.com.au...

Great discussion by Juri Viehoff on AI Agents and Solidarity at Work covering Individual Goods of Work, Solidarity as a Communal Good, How AI Undermines Solidarity, and Preserving Solidarity in the Age of AI. #Philosophy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence blog.apaonline.org/2...

This recent judgement in the Supreme Court of QLD will be of interest to those tracking the Non-Compete Clause discussion in the federal election. #EmployeeRelations #IndustrialRelations archive.sclqld.org.a...