by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 1, 2026
I have spent more than thirty years watching boards govern. Not every board I have observed governed well. Some governed in the true sense: they built architecture, received information, asked substantive questions, and held management to account through documented...
by Touch Stone Publishers | May 31, 2026
Founder’s Legend | AI First Culture AI Does Not Transform Work. Rituals Do. Tools amplify the rituals you tolerate. Redesign assignment, review, reward, and escalation before you scale the model. AI-first culture is a ritual redesign problem. Make the operating...
by Touch Stone Publishers | May 28, 2026
I have spent a long time thinking about what separates the leaders who leave something lasting from the ones who leave only a record of their tenure. It is not strategy. Strategy can be bought. It is not discipline, or rigor, or even integrity, though all of those...
by Touch Stone Publishers | May 28, 2026
I once watched a CEO stop a deployment. Not because the technology failed. Not because the vendor missed the deadline. Not because the budget was cut or the board intervened. The deployment was ready. The team was ready. The timeline was on track. Everyone in that...
by Touch Stone Publishers | May 26, 2026
Founder’s Legend | AI First Culture The Day You Publish Decision Rights AI does not scale when ownership is vague. It scales when leaders make decision rights, proof rules, and cadence visible before the tools. AI transformation fails when decisions are...
by Touch Stone Publishers | May 26, 2026
Founder’s Legend | AI First Culture The Day You Publish Decision Rights AI does not scale when ownership is vague. It scales when leaders make decision rights, proof rules, and cadence visible before the tools. AI transformation fails when decisions are...
