Anabology's Escape Velocity sets a fear many business leaders carry to music: a window is closing. I don't believe AI creates a permanent underclass. I think it reorders the ladder, and the next eighteen months, as AI moves into the disruption of markets and supply chains, will largely decide who climbs and who falls.

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 second SSRN paper is out. 'Will AI take my job?' is the wrong question. The right one is what happens to human economic value when intelligence becomes cheap, and the answer is that the bottleneck moves to purpose.

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.

A keynote to two hundred recruitment leaders, built around a monk on Lindisfarne, a bicycle, and one uncomfortable question: how many people are you prepared to let overtake you?