by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 8, 2026
Eighteen months ago a board approved an AI pilot. It was a small decision, correctly made small. A pilot is an experiment, and experiments belong to management. The board did what boards do with experiments: it noted the budget, asked a sensible question or two, and...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 7, 2026
There is a pattern in how organizations adopt powerful new tools, and it repeats with a regularity that should humble anyone who believes this time is different. The tool arrives. It is genuinely better than what came before. Leaders install it, expect the improvement...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 2, 2026
Seminal Perspectives | AI-First Culture The Organization That Calls Culture a Training Issue Has Already Missed the AI Shift. AI-first culture is not a communication plan. It is a redesign of the rituals that define authority, proof, and reward. AI-first culture is...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 2, 2026
The Black Box That Governance Built There is a passage in corporate governance history that does not appear in any textbook, because it is not a single event. It is a pattern — repeated across industries, across decades, across crises that were later described as...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 2, 2026
# The Board That Cannot Name Its AI Has Already Failed Its Shareholders **Category:** Seminal Perspectives | Touch Stone Publishers **Author:** Glenn E. Daniels II **Word Count:** ~1,050 — There is a pattern I have observed in boardrooms for thirty years. A...
by Touch Stone Publishers | Jun 1, 2026
# The Information Asymmetry That AI Created in Its Own Market ## Seminal Perspectives | Touch Stone Publishers | WP Category 546 — There is a paradox at the center of the current AI acquisition market that most of the participants are too busy to notice. The...