Dr Robert N. Winter

The issue Nearly every director now uses AI for board work, and an obvious use, having a model digest the pack, hands over the one task Australian law says a director must do personally.

The claim The remedy for a shortage of judgement is neither a course nor a better class of appointee.

Every generation of management produces an instrument for turning intention into action, and every generation watches its instrument harden into ritual.

The last essay ended on a concession, and I owe the reader a proper account of it.

The two preceding essays in this series, made a narrow argument.

In the last essay I argued that a certificate records the completion of a process and says nothing about whether judgement was formed.

Doug Belshaw has given a name to something most of us have been circling for years.

What does it mean to respect a culture you have been sent to change?

Someone with more wit than restraint has given the business world a wonderful new term cocktopus: a person who insists on handling eight things at once and then, with remarkable consistency, ruins every one of them.

Four essays of diagnosis earn one of prescription, and the prescription is perhaps unwelcome.

The Commonwealth supplies less than half the revenue of Australia’s universities and sets very nearly all of their terms.

In the preceding essay I put the competence problem at the moment of appointment; in this one I ask who carries the cost of it, and the answer sits in Champniss's own data, largely unremarked.

What do you do with a system that worked?

I left a promise unpaid at the end of the first essay in this series: the combined harvester never claimed to think, and the AI model does, which is the one genuinely novel element in the present anxiety.

Most conversations about artificial intelligence and the executive begin with a number that refuses to move.

The first essay in this series argued that the six forms of "psychological debt" are old wounds under new names; this one concerns what happens when the wound is given a number.

Somewhere in the wheat belt this season, a farmer will bring in several hundred hectares in the time his grandfather needed for a single paddock.

"We are hiring a Chief AI Officer.

There is a particular kind of essay that business audiences have been reading for over twenty years now.

Some years ago a friend sent me a paper that has stayed with me, though not for the reasons its authors might have hoped.

Somewhere in Los Angeles sits a warehouse of screenplays that will never be filmed.

The confidence man of Herman Melville's tale boards the Fidèle on the Mississippi on April Fool's day and proceeds, through a succession of disguises, to talk the passengers out of their money.

The moment of appointment is the moment of the fraud, if there is to be one.