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Business Adoption
32% of Australian workers now use AI
Indeed's 2026 AU jobs report: many say they need more training to make the most of it. Another 32%, the same share, have switched off entirely.
5 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Have You Heard About Botsitting?
Six hours a week disappearing into supervision overhead. Three studies explain why — and what to do instead.
28 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Good News — 7 in 10 of Your People Are Ready for AI
New research reveals a 31-point gap between how ready workers say they are and how ready their leaders think they are. Measurement closes it faster than enthusiasm.
28 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
AI & The Future of Work
HubSpot sent me 200 ways to make money with AI. I counted three.
The ideas were never the problem. They never are.
20 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Business Adoption
The neuroscience behind change resistance
Your people aren't resisting. Their brains are. Two models explain what's actually happening — and what to do about it.
16 Jul 2026 · 6 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Talking is better than typing (and easier)
You speak 150 words a minute. You type 40. Here's why that gap matters more than you think.
16 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Business Adoption
I gave AI my reading. Three agents came back.
The shift from AI-as-tool to AI-as-teammate happened. Here's what it looked like from the inside.
15 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
AI's Moore's Law — and why the clock is ticking
AI's capability doubles every 7 months. The people side of organisations isn't keeping up.
15 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
Business Adoption
44% of Gen Z are sabotaging your AI rollout
The most digitally native generation is pushing back hardest. Resistance is always information — if you know how to read it.
12 July 2026 · 5 min read
Business Adoption
AI super-users save 9 hours a week. Laggards save 2.
AI super-users save 9 hours a week. Laggards save 2. The gap is widening — and it's already reshaping careers.
12 July 2026 · 5 min read
Business Adoption
95% of AI pilots are failing — here's why
MIT interviewed 800+ organisations. The failure isn't the technology. It's where companies are deploying it.
12 July 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Who pays for AI? Three stories. One answer.
A $9.3B chip factory. Data centres draining water from local communities. 4,800 jobs gone. Three unconnected stories — or one pattern worth naming.
12 July 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
The demo era is over. Robots are at work.
Apptronik's humanoid robot Apollo is on the floor at Mercedes-Benz right now. Not in a lab. Not at a trade show. Actually working.
3 July 2026 · 3 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Robot Park: three things about this story I can't stop thinking about
A school for robots. A self-improving loop with no human in it. 90,000 square feet of what comes next.
3 July 2026 · 4 min read
AI & The Future of Work
AI can now read your brain???
Meta's new AI decoded brain signals into text with 61% word accuracy — without any surgery. Here's what just happened, and what it means for the future of work.
3 July 2026 · 3 min read
Fractional Change Management
You already buy fractional at the C-suite. Why not for change?
CIOs hire fractional CFOs, CTOs and CMOs without blinking. The change seat is the one that keeps getting left empty — and it's costing projects their adoption.
1 July 2026 · 5 min read
Fractional Change Management
By the time you hire a change manager, the damage is done
Change risk peaks in design and build. A permanent hire takes 3–6 months. Fractional is the only model that gets expertise in before it's too late.
1 July 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Stop prompting. Start looping.
The most advanced AI users don't write prompts anymore. They write loops. Here's what that means — and why it matters for your work.
1 July 2026 · 4 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Your new Slack coworker doesn't need a desk
AI just moved into your team's Slack. The question isn't whether your people are ready — it's whether your change plan is.
29 June 2026 · 6 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Stop writing bad prompts. Ask AI to fix them first.
Most people write a prompt and hope. Here's the 30-second trick power users do instead.
29 June 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Sick of Wix? I built this whole site with Claude Code — in a day
Two screens, a chat window, and a GitHub repo. No web developer required.
29 June 2026 · 6 min read
AI & The Future of Work
“Chat is dead.” What that means for your organisation
Agentic AI is taking over.
10 June 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Stop prompting. Start building.
Build your own AI tool in a day.
9 June 2026 · 5 min read
AI & The Future of Work
How AI is changing change management
AI is not the change manager of the future.
10 June 2025 · 6 min read
AI & The Future of Work
Your team is already using AI
Your organisation just doesn't have a strategy for it.
10 June 2025 · 5 min read
Change Strategies
Five tips for getting business change right
When you roll out new tech, the biggest risk usually isn't the system. It's the people.
3 June 2025 · 4 min read
Change Strategies
Why most change efforts don't stick
Done too late, too lightly, and too far from the people doing the work.
27 May 2025 · 4 min read
Business Adoption
Empowering managers with change workshops
The best system in the world stalls if your managers aren't ready to lead the change.
15 May 2025 · 5 min read
Business Adoption
Business readiness: the missing piece in every system project
You can have the best system, the best vendor, the best plan — and still watch it fall apart.
25 March 2025 · 5 min read

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