AI Trends for 2026: Building 'Change Fitness' and Balancing Trade-Offs
"AI is no longer the experiment on the side; it’s rewiring how work gets done"
Introducing the concept of "change fitness" which is the capacity to metabolize significant and ongoing change. At the individual level, it shows up as curiosity, experimentation, and comfort working in human–machine workflows. At the team level, it means new collaboration patterns, role clarity, and decision rights that match an AI-driven context.
This is the new skill that we need to learn - rapidly!
Centaurs, Canaries and J-Curves: Pitfalls and Productivity Potential of AI
Erik Brynjolfsson may well be the best possible person with whom to discuss the potential of current AI systems as he is the rare combination of a world-leading economist focused on understanding the evolution of productivity, and a lifelong practitioner and proponent of machine learning and AI systems.
Creating space
A single word of advice, given to all startups, and to CEOs of large companies, and they in turn to their teams: FOCUS
How to articulate yourself intelligently
If you don’t know what to learn, start writing. Not because writing is some shortcut your can’t stop looking for, but because writing teaches you how to think, how to learn, and how to inspire people to care about what you do.
3 Stubborn Change Management Beliefs That Consistently Sabotage Genuine Transformation
"It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so,” is a quote, often attributed to Mark Twain, endures because it so perfectly captures our everyday experience. You can learn things that you don’t know, but it’s incredibly difficult to unlearn something you believe in your heart to be true.