The Robber’s Cave experiment

This is a copy of an article I wrote for Manchester Digital. You can read the original here and their full series here As we approach 2025, it’s been nearly two years since OpenAI’s GPT-4 launched the generative AI boom. Predictions of radical, transformational change filled the air. Yet these promises remain largely unfulfilled. Instead […]

GenAI and quantum computing feel like they’re pulling us out of an era when computers were reliable. You put in inputs and get consistent, predictable outputs. Now? Not so much. Both tease us with incredible potential but come with a similar problems: they’re unreliable and hard to scale. Quantum computing works on probabilities, not certainties....

I want to share a story I often use when coaching new leaders – a personal anecdote about a lesson I learned the hard way. Back when I was at university, I spent a couple of summers working as a waiter in a restaurant. It was a lovely place – a hotel in Salcombe, Devon, […]

Are GenAI copilots helping us work smarter – or just faster at fixing the wrong problems? Let me introduce you to the concept of “failure demand.” The most widespread adoption of GenAI is copilots – Office365 CoPilot and coding assistants. Most evidences suggests they deliver incremental productivity gains for individuals: write a bit more code,...

Hiring is one of the most impactful decisions for any organisation. The wrong person can badly impact the culture and performance of the organisation, absorb time in performance management and be a significant distraction. Informal recruitment processes are leaving things down to chance. Inefficient processes consume time and risk losing top...