Seven lessons from the potter’s wheel about trust, empowerment, patience, and the art of building extraordinary teams.
Top 10 Leadership and Management links of the week, curated by Corix Partners Founder and CEO JC Gaillard, focusing on cyber security of course, but also a large cross section of subjects including digital transformation, emerging tech, AI governance and the future of work.
Peter F. Gallagher, FLRQ220, Saeculum Leadership® Leaders Separate Known Facts from Fear. Leadership requires the discipline to interpret signals, test evidence, challenge assumptions, judge competing risks and accept responsibility for the consequences of action and inaction.
For those of us who lead, whether in a church, a boardroom or a family, this matters. People are watching how we treat the colleague who is off sick or the volunteer back from surgery. Know them by name, not by condition. Let prayer for healing sit comfortably alongside laughter about burnt toast.
Despite the backlash that chatbots get, GenAI can add business value if you use it in the areas it has been trained for.
There's a responsibility that comes with being an award winner. On the night, there are 100s in the room sitting through acceptance speech after acceptance speech of people who didn't think they'd win. Why not back yourself, be prepared with a good speech... If you don't win, you can still share it.
AI is exposing a dirty secret in enterprise data: many systems worked because humans quietly supplied missing context. As machines start making decisions, semantic debt, provenance and meaning may matter more than having the smartest model.
The past few weeks have been insanely fast moving on the Super Intelligence front. Is the revival on February's discussion on consciouness simply that next bit of noise to garner headlines or a fundemental turning point on this topic?
AI can make organisational workarounds cheap enough to scale. This article explores how successful AI pilots can industrialise hidden dependencies, compensation and unresolved complexity alongside the capabilities organisations actually want.
This article dives into the aggregated effect of several shocks to our economic system and gives pointers on what to do. Leadership faces a very tough challenge and needs to prepare for the worst. All kind of scenarios are to be looked at. This is not the time for more meetings....
On 9 October 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorised accelerated atomic research that would ultimately contribute to the development of the Manhattan Project. Although the decision was made amidst the uncertainty of the Second World War, it initiated a process that would transform warfare,
Top 10 Leadership and Management links of the week, curated by Corix Partners Founder and CEO JC Gaillard, focusing on cyber security of course, but also a large cross section of subjects including digital transformation, emerging tech, AI governance and the future of work.
Consumer AI agents are everywhere, with the expected low consumer-grade accuracy. Enterprise AI agents need more rigor, scrutiny, and data expertise.
Supply chain AI tools have moved from experimental to essential. This is a practitioner guide to two of the most capable specialised AI platforms for supply chain management: SCM SENSEI AI and Ask Lora. What they do, how they work, who gets the most value, and what they cost.
Breaking down business silos is an old dream. Not because you want to crush human connections, but to access their knowledge and data and distribute it across the company. We decided to tackle the issue from exactly that perspective and make silos permeable without destroying them.
Top 10 Leadership and Management links of the week, curated by Corix Partners Founder and CEO JC Gaillard, focusing on cyber security of course, but also a large cross section of subjects including digital transformation, emerging tech, AI governance and the future of work.
A pilot succeeds. The dashboard works. The machine is connected. The team demonstrates value, and leadership approves the next phase. Then scaling begins.
This article explores the difference in having a purpose and living it as an organization or failing to do so. It compares an NGO with a listed company. In the space of SRM, CLM and ecosystems.
Peter F Gallagher, LCRQ218, Friday’s Leadership Reflection Quote – Saeculum Leadership® Leaders Architect Legitimacy Before Fragility.
Enterprise AI pilots keep working exactly as designed. The problem is what they were designed to do. A framework for understanding why excellent technology produces almost no deployment -- and what changes when you name the trap before the pilot starts.
The Potter’s Hands: Why Great Leaders Shape Environments, Not PeopleThe Corix Partners Friday Reading List - October 16, 2026Friday’s Leadership Reflection Quote – Saeculum Leadership Leaders Separate Known Facts from FearYou are not your diagnosisIs GenAI good for anything?
