Earlier this summer I gave the keynote at the Cottingham & Butler CEO Summit in Chicago. This is the argument I made, and why I think most mid-market CEOs are doing the second half of their AI job without ever doing the first.

My third SSRN paper is out. It asks the question I now think defines the AI era for leaders: when your systems start setting their own sub-goals, who holds purpose, who judges, and how much agency do you hand over?

My first SSRN working paper is out. It takes the Purpose, Execution, Judgement framework I first wrote about on LinkedIn, integrates it with the AI Capability model, and sets out six propositions for testing.

My first book is out today. Three years of fieldwork with hundreds of organisations, distilled into the Seven Stages of Organisational AI Transformation and a route map from AI awareness to AI embedding.