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| | 🏗️ Before AI, fix the org | Recently, I wrote ‘Before AI, Fix the Org’ with People Managing People. It’s a piece I’ve been wanting to write for a long time. Not because it’s about AI (AI isn’t my usual lane😉), but because AI is now crashing straight into the lane I am in: people, leadership and organisations. | 👉 It’s exposing every unclear decision
👉 Surfacing every messy workflow
👉 Shining a light on every “we’ll fix it later” org structure | And that’s the thread running through the whole article: we can’t build AI-ready organisations until we learn to think, design and decide with sharper reasoning. | A few reflections as I wrote it: | I found myself smiling at how full-circle this journey is; from crashing my PC running AI models in 2000s 😅, when I was modelling power plants, to now modelling organisations. I realised how much HR is standing at a crossroads. Stay a support act, or become the architect of the system everyone else relies on. And writing this reminded me (again) that AI doesn’t forgive lazy thinking – myself included. If our thinking is vague, it reflects the vagueness right back at you. Very clearly. 👀
| Before AI, Fix the Org | A Leadership PhD’s Advice for Going Back to Org Design Fundamentals Before Integrating AI and Scaling HR Teams |
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| The article walks through 3 shifts I’m noticing: | 1. AI is exposing weak organisational systems | We can’t just throw AI into a broken system and hope it works miracles. If our org design, decision-making or workflows are messy, AI will only scale the mess. Which is why disciplined organisational design can no longer be “nice to have.” | 2. Thinking quality is now the leadership advantage | AI removes information scarcity. What matters now is how leaders frame problems, design decisions and leverage AI as a thinking partner. Vague thinking gets mirrored right back. The strongest leaders will use AI to challenge their logic, improve clarity and scale their decisions. | 3. HR role as the system architect | We either step into our role as strategic system architects…or risk becoming irrelevant. Our job has always been to build commercial perspective and connect the dots across the business — and AI now gives us even more leverage to do that well. | If any of this resonates with the way you’re building your team, your thinking, or your organisation, I think you’ll enjoy this one. | 💛JooBee | |
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