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, p

AI has not only not solved the problem of cognitive overload, it has also increased it. Leaders are working harder than ever, and AI has done little to reduce stress or improve decision quality. Contrary to the popular complaint, the issue is not with AI. It is the way we are using it. When AI is treated as a tool for tasks, nothing changes beyond it being a cool new novelty. However, when AI becomes a thinking partner, with continuity and shared context, human cognition (or

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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 Pote