by Touch Stone Publishers | Sep 2, 2026
I have sat in board meetings where every director left believing the group had agreed on something, and none of them could later say, in the same words, what that something was. It happened again this year, in a session about an AI system nobody in the room fully...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 26, 2026
I watched an executive do something I have never seen another leader do in thirty years of sitting in boardrooms. Her division had spent eighteen months building what the rest of the company would eventually be required to adopt: a verification architecture. Every...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Aug 10, 2026
I once sat across from a board chair who handed me a packet before a quarterly meeting and said, with genuine pride, this is the cleanest reporting we have ever produced. He was right. Every section was color coded. Every risk category carried a green status. Every...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 31, 2026
I have watched a pattern repeat itself often enough across organizations that I no longer think of it as an anecdote. I think of it as a test. It is not a test anyone administers on purpose. It reveals itself in what a leader does in the six months after an AI system...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 24, 2026
I sat across from an executive a few years ago who had done everything the governance literature tells you to do. His name was on the accountability chart as the owner of an automated decisioning system that touched a meaningful share of the company’s revenue....
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jul 17, 2026
I was in the room the first time I watched an organization discover it had no answer to the simplest question a board can ask after something breaks: who owned this. The system in question was not an AI agent. This was years before that term meant anything outside a...
