Who decides, and how? Matching decision stakes to decision roles
Decisions stall when people are unclear about the role they’re meant to play. Naming both the type of decision and the role helps everything move faster.
Topic
leadership
A collection of 35 issues
This week's best things #108
Bayeux Tapestry interactive; writing as thinking, and what AI does to it; a book on newsletters; an AI confessions project; an HBR framework for team readiness; genius as social contagion; a (bad) piece dismissing the idea of enshittification; and some webinars and events.
This week's best things #107
the Australian Museum's new AI search, the 2026 Tiny Awards, EU designating ChatGPT a 'very large search engine', Demos on AI's role in information warfare, HBR on spotting toxic leaders, TikTok's new comment tools, a 'Refuse Consent Glyph' for AI surveillance, and new ways of reading recipes.
Three ways of showing intent
Lots of organisations suffer from a gap between what they announce, what their structures signal, and what their behaviour actually proves. That gap is where trust erodes and priorities go to die.
This week's best things #90
Physical thinking, leadership withdrawal, motivation myths, AI companionship, fixed-term organisations, and feedback tools. Plus worker mobilisations around AI in arts and culture, alternatives to doomscrolling, and the beauty of a Scottish accent.
Dealing with the decision-making logjam
Even strong ideas stall when decision-making systems can’t keep up with limited leadership attention. This piece looks at why everything escalates, how attention becomes a bottleneck, and what leaders can change to reduce friction without burning out teams or themselves.
Making the Case - what leaders notice (and need) when everything’s competing for their time
Leaders are not ignoring good ideas, they are juggling trade-offs, tight capacity, and timing pressures that are rarely visible. Understanding that reality helps you work out when and how to raise things, and why ideas succeed or stall inside cultural organisations.
This week's best things #85
Opaque web filtering, accessibility, algorithmic power, the world's quietest room, crisis leadership, Google's year in search, and the dangers of organisational firefighting.
This week's best things #84
A mix of indie web oddities, creative projects, research on leadership, tools to dodge AI slop, and how AI safety features can be circumvented with poetry. Also some reflections on audio design, leadership dynamics, a design system from the Swedish state railway, and a recipe for clotted cream
This week's best things #83
A call for participants for a digital decision-making pilot, plus pieces on BoM’s troubled rebuild, leadership habits, 2026 trends, digital luxury, Theory X and Y, platform safety, judicial overreach, AI notetaker risks, and some thoughts on imagination and resilience.