Some government friction is there on purpose

Some government friction is there on purpose

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 31/08/2026

What the U.S. constitutional system can teach us about coordination: why distributed authority, dependencies, and constraints can create necessary friction rather than dysfunction.

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AI authority is moving faster than risk accountability

AI authority is moving faster than risk accountability

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 20/08/2026

AI adoption is changing who leads the conversation inside some organizations. In [What senior leaders want to know about AI](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/what-senior-leaders-want-to-know-about-ai), MIT Sloan School of Management

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When the path from data to decision gets shorter

When the path from data to decision gets shorter

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 06/08/2026

Toyota’s global resource-allocation process depended on dozens of spreadsheets, large planning teams, manual reconciliation and multiple approval layers. The work took weeks. Toyota then replaced that process with an AI-mediated workflow that

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The boundaries around an innovation shape what leaders can see

The boundaries around an innovation shape what leaders can see

Brett Ferguson
Published on: 31/07/2026

An organization decides to solve a business problem. A new product, process, or operating approach begins to take shape around that decision. Before implementation starts, though, another choice has already been made: the organization has defined

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