A Tantrum Long Past Its Time

In the cartoon Heidi, most of us remember the character: Clara Sesemann is the girl in the wheelchair. She is frail and pale, and lives in Frankfurt in an enormous house, with a terrifying governess and a father who is often away.

Thinking together with intelligent people

The internet has accustomed us to thinking that having influence means having an audience. The more people follow you, the more authoritative you seem. This is the audience model: one person at the centre and many people around them listening. But for those who produce knowledge, it may not be the right model.

Remigrating Unassimilated Priests

The Catholic Church has an assimilation problem. Except that it concerns ordained priests, who are within the Church but no longer assimilated.

Using generative AI to develop strategy

Business leaders are accustomed to engaging with people – on the board, among consultants or with colleagues – in meetings where meaning and value emerge from the interplay of different experiences and perspectives. Today, however, leaders are discovering a new interlocutor: generative artificial intelligence. Not as a collaborator to whom they can delegate the drafting of texts or reports, but as a cognitive partner, capable of opening up spaces for strategic reflection and helping to create new meaning for the organisation.

The Dominant Paradigm

With the birth of formal mathematics, particularly in ancient Greece, and then with its modern systematisation, humanity begins to conceive of complex abstract thought. The world is reduced to numbers, proportions and ideal forms. Thought takes on a deductive, sequential structure.

The Boundaries of Knowledge

From the twentieth century onwards, with the crises in the foundations of mathematics, scientific revolutions and the emergence of the cognitive sciences, a decisive epistemological rift opens at the heart of thought: knowledge is no longer understood as a closed, self-sufficient and deductively complete system. Rather, it appears as an open, unstable, processual and constitutively interpretative field.

When responsibility begins before action

If an AI makes a wrong decision, does responsibility concern only the final decision, or also the fact that this decision was among the possibilities the system had been designed to consider?

The exception that changes the rules

Why AI fails to recognise the strategic exception and how this can put your business at risk

The 5 questions to ask yourself before asking AI to decide

A manager who asks AI “what is the best option?” before establishing what “best” means has already surrendered the most important part of their role.

Gregor’s Room

Gregor’s Room An allegory of the capacity of environments to generate and classify the beings they contain. When Kafka’s Metamorphosis is discussed, all attention centres on Gregor Samsa. His transformation into an insect is analysed (Kafka wrote Verwandlung, not Metamorphose); his relationship with his family, his guilt, alienation and work are examined, leading ultimately to the question of what human condition all the events of the story might be a metaphor for.

The Super-Competent Colleague

How AI is shifting the point at which responsibility stops within organisations

The New Rich: the Cognitive Aristocracy

Who will retain the capacity to challenge the system that produces the thinkable?

How to understand today what the future holds for your business

Businesses fail because they observe the world through metrics, categories and models designed to optimise the core, not to interpret what is changing