The systems that built your best people won’t survive AI unless you protect them deliberately Part 2 of the AI Absorption Framework series Look at the people in your organization whose judgment you trust most, the ones you hand the hard calls to. Trace their careers back and you’ll usually find the same path. They started as analysts or associates doing work that felt routine. They sat in meetings taking notes, wrote the first draft nobody saw, and received feedback that stun

Part 1 of the AI Absorption Framework series I had dinner with a friend recently, and she described how her company rolled out Claude at the start of the year: an all-staff email, a login link, a few training docs. Essentially, a “go forth and prosper” mandate. When I asked how she and her team were using it, she said: “Everyone's using it now, but it's mostly used as an advanced google search tool and writing assistant.” A powerful, expensive tool, deployed with no direction

Most organizations don’t struggle to buy AI. They struggle to absorb it. A few weeks ago, I asked a group of senior leaders a simple question: “What has AI changed about how your organization works?” The room quickly filled with examples — faster research, quicker content creation, more efficient analysis. But when we moved past tool usage and started talking about changes to roles, decision-making, workflows, and accountability, the conversation got much quieter. This experi