Hiring for the Culture You Don’t Yet Have
In periods of disruption, leadership teams often talk about transformation as though it were a strategy exercise. In reality, transformation is usually a talent decision first.
In periods of disruption, leadership teams often talk about transformation as though it were a strategy exercise. In reality, transformation is usually a talent decision first.
The future isn’t approaching. It’s accelerating. And in many organisations, the real constraint isn’t strategy, technology or capital. It’s how quickly people can make sense of change, and act on it.
Talent acquisition is often described as a process that begins with sourcing and attraction. In practice, this framing is flawed. Attraction does not start with outreach. It starts with clarity.
Coaching is now central to leadership, not supplementary. AI can extend its reach, but in complex environments, context, trust and judgement remain firmly human domains.
In To Lead Is to Care, John O. Burdett reflects on the overwhelming pace that artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing and why the #1 skill leaders are rightly adopting is AI fluency.
For those of you shaping the future of complex, global enterprises, the question is no longer whether tomorrow will be different. It is whether your organisation is designed for that difference.
The combination of geopolitical fracture, policy unpredictability, technological acceleration and heightened scrutiny is forcing boards and CEOs into decisions they would previously have deferred, softened or delegated.
The pace of change facing organisations has never been greater. It will never be this slow again. In this environment, hoping for stability or relying on last-century leadership models is no longer enough.
We're navigating a world where AI is reshaping everything and the only way to thrive is to build teams that can adapt, innovate and truly work together.
What now distinguishes the truly exceptional from the merely capable is a deep alignment between who they are, how they think, and the value they create for the future.
Today, insight and expertise emerge from across the organisation, often from the frontline where employees engage with customers, spot emerging problems, and uncover opportunities before they appear in quarterly reports.
With talent harder to find, change accelerating, AI looming, new generations reshaping work, and hybrid working now the norm, leaders need more than technical skills or performance support – they need perspective.