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Why Australia’s Financial Services Leaders Need to Accelerate their Digital Transformation Discover what maintaining legacy back-office systems is really costing Australian financial institutions, and what they risk from delaying a digital transformation.

Legacy back-office tech isn't a technical debt problem; it's a human flourishing problem. It actively repels the talent you need to build the future and strangles the curiosity required for innovation. Your ERP is your culture, codified. Choose wisely.

#FutureOfWork

AI Is Moving Faster Than Your Workforce Strategy. Are You Ready? AI is rapidly and radically changing the tasks workers undertake, the talent companies need, and the ways teams interact. Organizations can act to shape the transformation.

BCG's new piece points to "agent-led orchestration" as #AI's next step. When AI executes, the uniquely human contribution becomes strategic and ethical oversight. A profound shift for leaders.

#AIStrategy #Leadership #FutureOfWork

AI Won’t Give You a New Sustainable Advantage Generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) has the potential to radically alter how business is conducted, and there’s no doubt that it will create a lot of value. Companies have used it to identify…

The argument that AI won't create sustainable advantage is correct. It's a commoditising force that learns from first-movers and shares the spoils.

This is good news. It forces us to stop looking for durable value in tech and start finding it in what AI cannot copy: our humanity.

How Every Employee Can Become an Innovator It’s not just GenAI. Tools alone won’t unleash innovation—companies must complement new technologies with robust systems to test and scale the best ideas.

Giving staff AI tools creates noise. Real innovation needs a system to select and amplify good ideas. The tool is easy. The leadership to build the system is the actual work.

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#Innovation #Leadership #OrgDesign

The augmented human: Why HR is the architect of an AI-powered future With AI quickly redefining the future of work, HR has to be deeply involved in the transformation already underway.

The real promise of AI isn't automation, but augmentation. It frees people from repetitive tasks to focus on creativity and complex problem-solving.

This demands a shift from jobs to skills, with HR as the architect of a more human-centric, flourishing workplace.

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#AI #FutureOfWork

How SMEs Can Prepare for the EU’s AI Regulations The EU AI Act, which will take effect fully in August 2026, is transforming how companies of all sizes build and deploy AI systems. Applications of AI labeled as high risk—including common tools like…

The EU #AI Act isn't a tax on innovation; it's a leadership test.

Most see a compliance hurdle. See instead a rare opportunity to build a competitive moat made of trust. Proactively embedding fairness and transparency into high-risk AI is how technology becomes a humanising force.

Don’t Let AI Reinforce Organizational Silos Artificial intelligence is boosting efficiency in many organizations, but too often it reinforces functional silos rather than breaking them down. Departments adopt AI tools independently, generating…

AI's default setting is to reinforce the silos that kill productivity. When departments deploy AI tactically, they create friction and conflicting goals. Leaders must intentionally build a unified strategy, using AI not just for isolated gains, but to connect people and purpose.

Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry | Governor of California Official website of the State of California

Will have to read this one today -> Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics

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Challenging the Average With Open-Source AI: Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf This Me, Myself, and AI episode features Hugging Face’s chief science officer in conversation with host Sam Ransbotham.

AI's greatest strength is its core limitation. It is designed to predict the most probable outcome, making it a powerful engine for generating the average.

But human progress doesn't come from the average. It comes from challenging it.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that…

AI was meant to boost productivity, but it's creating "workslop": content that looks good but is empty of substance.

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#AI #Workslop #Productivity

And the prelims kick off at 7:00am local time, venue opening at 5:00am local time.

Screenshot of seat prices for UFC Perth, ranging from $75 AUD to $100 AUD

Even with cheap seats, #UFC Perth will be half empty. Why? AFL Grand Final (Melbourne), NRL Finals (Sydney & Brisbane), Rugby Bledisloe Cup (Auckland). Whoever picked this date did not have the region in mind.

Resistance to Evidence Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Resistance to Evidence

A leader's refusal to see unwelcome facts is not just bad strategy. It is a failure of respect for their people and for reality itself. Philosopher Mona Simion terms this 'resistance to evidence'—a cognitive malfunction that actively prevents a flourishing workplace.

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#Leadership

The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs AI is reshaping work, but eliminating entry-level jobs is short-sighted. These roles are crucial for developing future leaders, fostering innovation, enriching organizational culture, and protecting…

The rush to replace entry-level jobs with AI confuses an expense with an investment.

Junior roles aren't just for executing rote tasks; they are the foundry for your future leaders.

The true value of AI is not replacement, but redesigning work to accelerate human judgment.

Ethical risks of AI's use in traffic offences raised in new report Queensland's transport department uses AI in its cameras to detect mobile and seatbelt offences, but a new audit has ordered called for a review into how that's done.

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Managing the ethical risks of artificial intelligence | Queensland Audit Office Artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities for the public sector to achieve better social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It can provide operational efficiencies, support…

A new report shows the gap between AI principles and practice. Ethical governance isn't a brake, it's the steering wheel. It's how leaders ensure technology serves humanity. #AIEthics

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We're told #AI drives #innovation. New research finds it can do the opposite by reducing the human-to-human conversations that spark new ideas.

A powerful mitigator? Not less AI, but more employee autonomy to decide how and when it's used. Trust people, not just tools.

95% of AI pilots fail. The reason isn't the tech, it's the leadership. Successful firms have shapers who prioritise human-centric strategy over mere deployment. They prove that making AI work isn't a technical challenge-it's a fundamentally human one.

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#HumanReverence #AI #Leadership

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI's impact on white-collar jobs is coming fast and hard. Expect significant job changes within 1-5 years. This isn't hypothetical; it's already happening internally at AI companies.

#AI #FutureOfWork

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Team communication actions: Beyond the dichotomy of face-to-face versus virtual interactions in teams In this article, we introduce the novel concept of team communication actions, which reflects the actions that team members perform over communication…

New research suggests we should focus on "communication actions," not the tools themselves. The medium doesn't matter as much as the human interaction it enables.

Define the action, then choose the tool.

#HumanReverence #FutureOfWork #HRTech

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The Philosopher's Annual https://philosophersannual.org/

The articles that made it into the latest edition of Philosophers Annual have been announced.

#Philosophy

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ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …

“A future without work could be much better than ours, overall. But, living in that world, or watching as our old ways passed away, we might still reasonably grieve the loss of the work that once was part of who we were”

#TheFlourishingWorkplace #Philosophy

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Piloting #GenAI is easy, but creating value is hard. That requires empowering employees to cocreate gen AI products against a North Star that redefines ways of working.

#ArtificialIntelligence #TheFlourishingWorkplace

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Book review: "Concepts in Smart Societies' Next Generation of Human Resources and Technologies" via Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources.

#TheFlourishingWorkplace #HRTech #HRTechStrategy

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Responsible Enterprise AI in the Agentic Era Companies see RAI as critical enabler for Enterprise AI success but are playing catch up on building out effective RAI capabilities. RAI teams must proactively invest in agile, efficient, and scalable operating models to enable enterprise AI to thrive as the era of Agentic AI dawns and complexity and uncertainty around AI increases.

New report from Infosys finds that almost all executives (95%) have experienced at least one type of problematic incident from their use of enterprise #AI.

#ArtificialIntelligence

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The A(I) Team: Effects of Human-Likeness and Conformity to Gender Stereotypes on Initial Trust and Willingness to Work With an AI Teammate.

#HRTech #HRTechStrategy #TheFlourishingWorkplace

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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast Sundar Pichai is CEO of Google and Alphabet. Thank you for listening ❤ Check out our sponsors: https://lexfridman.com/sponsors/ep471-sc See below for timestamps, transcript, and to give feedback, submit questions, contact Lex, etc. Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/sundar-pichai-transcript CONTACT LEX: Feedback – give feedback to Lex: https://lexfridman.com/survey AMA – submit questions, videos or call-in: https://lexfridman.com/ama Hiring – join our team: https://lexfridman.com/hiring Other – other ways to get in touch: https://lexfridman.com/contact EPISODE LINKS: Sundar’s X: https://x.com/sundarpichai Sundar’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/sundarpichai Sundar’s Blog: https://blog.google/authors/sundar-pichai/ Google Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/ Google’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Google SPONSORS: To support this podcast, check out our sponsors & get discounts: Tax Network USA: Full-service

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said on the Lex Fridman podcast that Google are reintroducing at least one round of in-person interviews "just to make sure the fundamentals are there".

#TheFlourishingWorkplace

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Extending Design in Organizations: A Meshwork of Organizing, Aligning, and Displaying Actions - Tua A. Björklund, Pia Hannukainen, Tuomas Manninen, Sampsa Hyysalo, 2025 Organizations increasingly seek benefits from design and design thinking beyond product and service creation. Building on a case study of OP Financial Group, th...

Organisations increasingly seek benefits from #design and design thinking beyond product and service creation. In this paper, the authors extend the utilisation of design from offerings to #operations and #strategy.

#TheFlourishingWorkplace #DesignThinking

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$90M is a hefty penalty that Qantas will face over its decision to outsource more than 1,800 ground handling jobs during the #COVID pandemic. This is 75% of the maximum penalty ($121M).

#IndustrialRelations #GeneralProtections

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Federation Platform and Privacy Waves: How Meta distributes compliance-related tasks at scale We’re exploring Meta’s Federation Platform, a scalable set of tools for managing compliance-related tasks, along with Privacy Waves, our method for batching these tasks and ensuring accountability.…

How Meta distributes compliance-related tasks at scale.

#Privacy

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