Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. MIT Says 95% of AI Investments Fail to Deliver ROI. Here’s What They Missed This summer, MIT’s NANDA Initiative released a new report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.  Its headline finding is hard to ignore: despite $30–40...

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. L&D Is the R&D of Human Potential… and AI Is the Catalyst Somewhere along the way, Learning and Development got lost. It began as a strategic business function, a mechanism for growing the human capacity behind innovation, product...

The other day a client asked me how I would design a “Job Architecture” that includes AI-enabled tools. Traditionally, job architecture operates on job descriptions, pay grades, titles, and roles. It gives structure, but not growth. It tells people where they sit on the org chart. Employees start to see their career as “my job at ACME”, not “my career journey at ACME”.  Instead of traditional job architecture, it’s time for Human Potential Architecture (HPA) . What Human Potential...