Barry Flack

AI is Not Your Threat. Your Outdated Leadership is. Stop building better bosses, start building organisations where leadership, decision-making, and strategic thinking are distributed across teams, not concentrated at the top.

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Stop Treating Employment Compliance and Innovation Like Enemies Organisations face a single challenge: adapt structurally or be exposed by external forces such as AI and regulatory change. Coherence—aligning tech, regulation, and humanity—is now essential.

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Cultural Readiness Assessment

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Cultural Readiness Assessment

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Stop Pretending Complexity Is New We’ve ignored complexity for 40 years. AI won’t save us — it’ll surface the cracks. Our future, like our present, isn't about control and speed, but redesign, sense-making, and real work.

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You Don’t Need More AI tools. You Need Less BS Work. AI won’t fix pointless work, just accelerate it. The future of SMEs isn’t faster reports, but redesigned work where BS is cut, client value leads, and AI handles grunt work.

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Why Forcing People Back to 20th Century Offices Kills 21st Century Innovation AI won’t save broken systems but expose them. The future of work won’t be built on square footage or legacy thinking, but on culture-first strategies powered by insight, not nostalgia.

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If you’ve a people problem, you’ll have an AI problem Leaders say “I must do something about AI". Their instinct is action. But without the right cultural foundations, action misfires. AI doesn’t fix broken systems, it amplifies them. Culture then Tech.

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Why Forcing People Back to 20th Century Offices Kills 21st Century… | Barry Flack Why Forcing People Back to 20th Century Offices Kills 21st Century Innovation

Latest Newsletter has dropped on LinkedIn.

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If you’ve a people problem, you’ll have an AI problem Shared with 10,729 followers | 1,105 LinkedIn subscribers (and growing) “I know I need to do something about AI”. I find these words reverberating around the corridors within the world of work quite a...

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Don’t Let Cost Cutting Kill Your AI Ambitions Shared with 10,678 followers | 1,071 LinkedIn subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives Welcome ...

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Why Culture eats AI for breakfast – Part 2 Great Tech reveals Operational readiness. If the cultural foundations are shaky, no shiny new AI product will succeed. Instead, shift how people think, what they value, and how they contribute.

For those who don't like their content from LinkedIn, here's my latest newsletter on Substack.

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Why Culture eats AI for breakfast – Part 1 AI, like previous Digital Transformations, often fail because none of the players in the project seem to appreciate the need for strong cultural foundations or the human dimensions to success.

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Why Culture eats AI for breakfast – Part One Shared with 10,645 followers | 1,043 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for ...

Latest edition out today. Please share and subscribe if interested in making great #SME workplaces.

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#HR folks

Each year, my good friends at Lattice publish a "State of People Strategy" Report. A pulse check on all-things-HR.

This year's survey is now open. Takes 10 minutes & it's anonymous.

Please give them your thoughts and share if you can.

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Rethink HR, Rethink Leadership, Rethink Regulation Shared with 10,599 followers | 1,005 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives Welcome to an eve...

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#fractionalconsulting #hrcareers #transformation #leadership #frazerjones | Frazer Jones 🎯 Thinking of taking your HR career in a new direction? Fractional consulting could offer you more autonomy, more variety – and more impact. As Barry Flack explains, it’s not about age or seniority. I...

🎯 Thinking of taking your HR career in a new direction?

Fractional offers you more autonomy, more variety – and more impact. As I explain in this video, it’s not about age or seniority. It’s about having clarity of value and the confidence to work independently.

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SME People Insights: Shedding outdated thinking to make change stick. We need to shed outdated thinking. Here I examine how SMEs must factor employee economics on Change, ditch HR ownership of Wellbeing, repel the heroic leader and put agility into Skills building.

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SME People Insights: Shedding outdated thinking to make change stick. We need to shed outdated thinking. Here I examine how SMEs must factor employee economics on Change, ditch HR ownership of Wellbeing, repel the heroic leader and put agility into Skills building.

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Fractional consulting: a smarter way to scale HR leadership? | Frazer Jones 🎯 Need flexible, high-impact HR transformational leadership – without the long-term overhead? Fractional consulting gives businesses access to strategic HR…

Had the pleasure of slumping back in a comfy chair and talk with Frazer Jones about all things #FractionalHR

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SME People Insights : Solving workplace hangovers from the pandemic Five years after the Pandemic started, we examine practical responses to legacy issues, like 'unlearning' ways of working, meetings hangover, recruitment evolution and a shift to skills-based roles.

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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Four Shared with 10,555 followers | 941 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for th...

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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Three Shared with 10,535 followers | 896 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for th...

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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Three Shared with 10,535 followers | 896 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter for th...

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Latest from SME People Insights - Issue Two Shared with 10,495 followers | 815 subscribers (and growing). For the forward-thinking SME C-Suite | For enlightened HR Professionals | For a growing world of Fractional Executives A newsletter that a...

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Hi folks

I've just launched a LinkedIn newsletter: #SME People Insights.

Every 2 weeks, I'll be sharing insights on issues and trends impacting the sector and strategies for adapting to change.

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No iphones, no playstations. Just simple innocent boys at play in the streets.

ha ha.....I bloody hope not.

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Two days in and I'm blocking dodgy accounts...

Thought this is where the good guys hung out?