Global employee engagement dropped for the second consecutive year in 2025, hitting its lowest point since 2020. Gallup's State of the Global Workplace report puts the cost at roughly $10 trillion in lost productivity, about 9% of global GDP. No region of the world increased engagement last year. That kind of headline tends to land as a weather report. Unfortunate, largely outside anyone's control, something to acknowledge and move on from. The data tells a different story. Within...

Part One of this series raised a critical question: what happens to human judgment when leaders begin thinking alongside machines? The answer depends on what those machines have been trained to think. Most widely available AI tools are trained on the open internet, absorbing articles, opinions, frameworks, and advice written from vastly different levels of expertise. This gives them impressive range, but it doesn’t guarantee accuracy. A leadership model built from trending LinkedIn posts sits...

Most conversations about artificial intelligence in leadership focus on capability, efficiency, or risk. Far fewer ask a more important question: what happens to human judgment when leaders begin thinking alongside a machine? Artificial intelligence is already shaping how leaders prepare for conversations, make decisions, and communicate with their teams. Managers are using it to summarize meetings, draft feedback, and think through situations that once required quiet reflection or trusted...