by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 10, 2026
A few years ago I sat with a team that had built something genuinely impressive. They walked me through their first real AI deployment, and I remember the quiet pride in the room. The model did exactly what they had promised the board it would do. It read the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 8, 2026
Founder’s Legend | AI-First Culture AI-First Culture Does Not Begin With a Tool. It Begins With the Leader Who Rewrites the Ritual. An organization learns what AI means by watching what its leaders repeat. If the weekly meeting, the performance review, and the...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 7, 2026
# The Question I Keep Asking Boards About AI **Category:** Founder’s Legend | Touch Stone Publishers **Author:** Glenn E. Daniels II **Word Count:** ~820 — I have been in a lot of boardrooms. I have watched a lot of governance conversations happen. And...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 6, 2026
# The Number on the Page Isn’t the Asset ## Founder’s Legend | Touch Stone Publishers — I’ve been in rooms where a number on a page convinced experienced people to do something they shouldn’t have done. Not because they were careless....
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 4, 2026
There is a moment I have watched play out in more organizations than I can count, and it never looks like a turning point while it is happening. A leader sits down to review someone’s performance. The numbers are in front of them, clean and complete, generated...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 1, 2026
The Leader Who Cannot Afford to Be Ignorant There is a particular kind of moment I have watched leaders dread — and then, eventually, face. It arrives without announcement. The board room goes quiet. Someone asks a question they should have been able to answer a year...