AI is not just a technical shift—it is an identity, responsibility, and systems shift for leadership. In a wonderful article published in the Academy of Management Review, Vol. 46, No. 1, 192-210 Raisch & Krakowski (2021) discuss the dynamics at the heart of Artificial Intelligence and Management. I got some initial help from AI to [...]
Engström et al., 2025 describes what happens when organizations begin experimenting with AI—and why the experience often feels confusing, stuck, or fragmented. With some help from AI, I did a summary of the article and added some of my thoughts from my background in Polarity Thinking™. This wonderful article was originally published in the Journal of [...]
In "Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI," historian Yuval Noah Harari examines the power of information networks in shaping our shared human narratives and their impact on civilization and culture. I admire his ability to implicitly discuss polarity tensions in such sensible and accessible ways. Additionally, it can [...]
A few days ago, a friend, who is also an Executive Coach, talked me off the ledge when I shared how frustrated I was about what’s happening in America, and the world. A few days later I received a book in the mail: "Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, [...]
And just like that, AI Coaches share space with Human Coaches -- and always will. If you haven't tasted from the broad menu of AI Coach options that vary greatly in quality, here's a primer. Think about your last back-and-forth experience with a customer service chatbot, but instead of discussing a refund on a recent [...]
How will the growing availability of AI-driven Coaches revolutionize and upend the coaching profession? As a Human Coach, how will you survive and thrive in a world in which the availability of AI Coaches provides 24/7 availability, personalized feedback, and tailored data-driven resources analysis and options for moving forward in real-time? In this interactive session, Human Coach participants will unpack some critical considerations present now and, in the future, using the Polarity Approach and Polarity Map® to unpack and design strategies to leverage the challenges, and opportunities. There’s good news and bad news about this session – and let’s get the bad news out of way first.
She’s a millennial whip-smart tech CEO of a small woman-owned business and her organization contracts with the federal government on cyber security and national defense. For the last two years it’s just been the two of us. However, now we call it our “coaching triangle” that includes an AI Coach. It’s new and definitely different. [...]
On July 31st, I’m presenting at the Chesapeake Bay Organization Development Network Learning Series on the topic of “Technically Unsolvable Interdependencies.” A big focus of that presentation will be on most important and challenging interdependencies of our time – including the interdependency between technology and humanity. (This was also a topic I spoke on in [...]