Technology, Leadership, and the Future of Work
Tilting South: Why South America Is Becoming a Tech Hub
For most of my career I built technology teams across Europe, North America, and Asia. South America was the conspicuous absence. That is now changing. An honest look at why the region is becoming a serious tech hub, how it is happening, and what could still derail it.
Your Stack Is Someone Else’s Leverage
The infrastructure your organization depends on is not neutral ground. It sits inside national jurisdictions, and the governments on the other end have started being explicit about what that means.
AI Governance Checklist for Corporate Boards
Most boards ask whether the AI is working. These are the questions they should be asking instead. A practical companion to the five-part AI Governance for Boards series.
The Workforce Question Boards Aren't Asking
Most boards have had the AI workforce conversation. Jobs displaced, jobs created, retraining commitments. Those are the right questions. They are not the hardest one. When your AI gets something wrong, do the people responsible for catching it still know how to catch it?
What Your Board Should Be Seeing and Probably Isn't
If your regulator called tomorrow and asked you to describe your AI risk profile, what would you say? Not what management presented last quarter. What you actually know. For most boards, the honest answer is very little. That is a governance gap, not a reporting gap.
Can You Defend That Decision in a Courtroom?
Most organizations have an AI explainability policy. Very few can answer the question a regulator or jury actually asks: why did this person, in this situation, receive this outcome? That's a different standard. Most organizations haven't built it.
When Everyone Is Accountable for AI, No One Is
Most organizations feel like they've handled AI accountability. They have a committee, a policy, oversight across every function. When something goes wrong, the structure collapses. Because the test of accountability isn't who signed the policy. It's who answers.
The Three Questions Every Board Should Be Asking About AI
Boards aren't failing on AI because they don't understand the technology. They're failing because they haven't established the governance structures that make accountability real. Three questions change that.
The Amnesia of Outages - A Culture Shift
When systems fail, most teams recover fast but reflect little. The Amnesia of Outages looks at why organizations forget the lessons of every incident, how incentives reward speed over resilience, and what it takes to break the cycle. True reliability isn’t built in code or tools. It’s a leadership choice.
In Your Face - Smart Glasses at Work
AI-powered smart glasses are coming to work. This article explores their impact on privacy, trust, and what HR, IT, and legal teams must decide quickly.