Work is not working From the worker’s perspective, work increasingly feels broken. This is not the result of a single failure, but of intersecting forces: a more chaotic world, weak talent practices and organisational architectures that were never designed with humans in mind. Precarity now spans both permanent and contract-based work. Technology, particularly AI, is viewed with suspicion, not because it is inherently harmful, but because it is increasingly used as a mechanis

Rethinking risk in an unknowable world There are three broad classes of existential threat: The organisation ceases to exist Humanity ceases to exist The Earth ceases to exist. Few of us seriously contemplate a universe in which the Earth no longer exists. Some are acutely aware that humanity may be playing with fire. What is striking, however, is how little sustained attention many leaders give even to the survival of their own organisations. This is not because leaders are