The Legitimacy Crisis: Why Nobody Follows the Org Chart Anymore 27-Jul-2026 0 30 Leadership X.0 It is a Monday morning strategy meeting, sometime in 2026. The CEO opens with a plan. Before the coffee has gone cold, the most junior person in the room, two years out of college, badge still slightl... Read more
Future of Work: How to Build Careers That Get Stronger with Change 05-Jun-2026 0 112 Work X.0 The future of work has become one of the most discussed topics of our time. Artificial intelligence will replace jobs. Remote work will redefine organisations. Automation will transform industries. Ev... Read more
The Human Question: Meaning, Dignity, and Identity in a Post-AI World 21-May-2026 0 155 Work X.0 The debate surrounding artificial intelligence and the future of work is still largely framed as an economic conversation. Policymakers focus on labour displacement and productivity growth, companies ... Read more
Leadership of the Future: Leading When You Don't Have Answers 08-May-2026 0 165 Work X.0 For most of modern corporate history, leadership rested on a relatively stable bargain: leaders were expected to know more than everyone else. Information moved slowly, expertise compounded predictabl... Read more
Organisation of the Future: Why Org Charts are Becoming a Liability? 29-Apr-2026 0 182 Work X.0 The modern corporation is optimised for a world that no longer exists. For much of the 20th century, as we've been discussing at length in Work X.0 , the problem firms had to solve was efficiency at s... Read more
The New Skill Stack: Why Learning Speed Beats Expertise? 21-Apr-2026 0 188 Work X.0 As we've been exploring in Work X.0 , for most of the industrial age, expertise behaved like a marquee property. It was accumulated patiently, defended proudly and monetised predictably. A law degree,... Read more
AI as Cognitive Leverage: Are We Outsourcing Thinking at Scale? 01-Apr-2026 0 417 Work X.0 For the first time in history, we’re not just outsourcing labour. We’re outsourcing thinking itself. And the question isn’t whether AI is powerful. It’s whether we’re using it to think better or to av... Read more
The Great Unbundling: When Jobs Break into Tasks in the AI Era 27-Mar-2026 0 277 Work X.0 In today’s rapidly evolving future of work, the traditional job is no longer the primary unit of value. Increasingly, we are seeing the unbundling of work, where jobs are breaking into tasks, workflow... Read more
From Career X.0 to Work X.0: Why Careers Broke Before Work Did 19-Mar-2026 0 266 Work X.0 As we explore in Work X.0 , the idea of a career rested on a simple premise: that progress would be linear, predictable, and largely controllable. One would choose a field, enter at the bottom, accumu... Read more
Inflection Points: How Inventions Compressed Years of Work 11-Mar-2026 0 277 Work X.0 As we explored in part 1 of Work X.0, work persists not merely because of economic necessity, but because it fulfils deeper psychological and social functions. Even as technology has dramatically incr... Read more
Why Humans Work: The Civilisational Constant Behind Every Job 03-Mar-2026 0 305 Work X.0 In 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that by the end of the century, technological progress would reduce the workweek to roughly 15 hours. Productivity would soar. Material needs would be met. Leisu... Read more
Career X.0: The New Architecture of Modern Work 21-Nov-2025 0 393 Career X.0 For decades, the architecture of a “career” appeared stable enough to be taken for granted. Yet, beneath the surface, structural forces—technological, demographic, psychological—were steadily eroding ... Read more