What Just Happened and What It Really Means
Real-world events analysed through leadership, decision-making, and organisational behaviour. Each piece ends with the questions that change what happens next. Brought to you by The Boardroom Coach.
25 Oct 2026
Organisational Risk: The Dependencies Boards May Overlook
How well do Boards understand organisational dependencies? Explore what cybersecurity, pension investments and FCA findings reveal about risk and assurance.
10 Oct 2026
The Human Oversight Paradox: Accountable for AI, Afraid to Admit What We Don't Know
As regulators examine how organisations should control increasingly autonomous AI, new research raises an uncomfortable question. What happens when the people responsible for exercising oversight are reluctant to acknowledge the limits of their own understanding?
09 Oct 2026
Does Age Make Us Wiser, or Just More Experienced?
What the science of judgement reveals about leadership, age discrimination and the environments in which good decisions are made.
01 Oct 2026
When AI Starts Acting, Who Is Still Doing the Thinking?
Autonomous AI is moving from answering questions to taking action. As that happens, keeping a human in the loop may not be enough. The deeper challenge is preserving independent human judgement.
16 Sept 2026
When Good Leaders Make Decisions in a False Environment
Senior executives can make entirely rational decisions that still fail when the reality reaching them no longer reflects the organisation they are leading. What happens when good judgement is exercised in a false environment?
06 Sept 2026
Simple by Design, Not by Origin
A leadership charter should do more than state good intentions. This one is designed to make leadership expectations visible, expose differences in perspective and reveal where agreed behaviours are not showing up in practice.
06 Sept 2026
AI Governance and Shadow AI: Has Your Operating Model Already Changed?
AI governance may be arriving after informal AI use has already changed how work, decisions and accountability operate. The leadership challenge is understanding what has shifted before hidden dependencies become embedded.
17 Aug 2026
Perhaps the safest way to use AI is to learn how to disagree with it
AI can improve visible performance faster than the judgement supporting it. Emerging research suggests the effect depends partly on how much thinking people continue to do for themselves.
31 Jul 2026
Mayoral Devolution and Accountability: When Responsibility Moves, Does Control Move With It?
The debate around English devolution reflects a tension already familiar in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: responsibility for outcomes may be devolved while funding, legislation and intervention powers remain shared. This article explores what that means for democratic accountability, and the hidden lesson for boards delegating authority inside complex organisations.
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