Headcount was never the strategy
Why workforce planning has stopped working for the organisations that can least afford it.
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Vol. I · 2026
Insights.
Essays on governance, trust, and what AI is doing to leadership. Slow journalism for boards.
EARLIER ESSAYS — 7 TOTAL 
Relationship capital, accounted for
A working draft of a metric boards keep asking for and analysts keep pretending exists.
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When a tech sub-committee outlives its mandate
On the small, awkward conversation that nominating committees keep postponing — and three options for what to do instead.
9 MIN READ Read essay
The succession plan that survives the AI cycle
Three questions a chair should be able to answer about every named successor — and where most CHROs are still avoiding the third one.
11 MIN READ Read essay
On disclosure, when the technology is moving faster than the language
A short essay on the duty to explain — and the harder duty of explaining in a vocabulary your shareholders can hold.
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Why the AI committee is the wrong governance answer
A working argument that the sub-committee is the worst place for AI accountability — and where it should sit instead.
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A QUARTERLY LETTER
Four pieces a year. No automation.
A note from the practice four times a year — usually 1,500 words on what is happening in boardrooms that the press is not writing about yet.