As 2026 begins, outdated operating models, rising risk, and AI speed are testing how prepared leaders really are.

2026 tests executive maturity. AI, climate pressure, stalled advancement, burnout, and hidden emotional labor are reshaping what leadership requires.

Trust rarely breaks in big moments but in daily signals that go unaddressed. This week, we examine how leaders rebuild alignment, resilience, and confidence at speed.

AI is no longer the constraint, leadership is. This week’s On Culture explores how perspective, design, and agency define the next advantage.

Transformation sticks when people choose it. This week’s On Culture explores why meaning drives adoption and how leaders design change that earns belief.

Leaders are learning to hold tension at speed—advancing AI, trust, and transformation without losing clarity, care, or the human core.

How do we scale flourishing at work? At the Harvard SHINE Summit, leaders explored how purpose, place, and people set the conditions.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. This week’s issue explores how leaders can protect focus and spark renewal.

AI is speeding up low-value work. Here’s how to strip noise, rewire incentives, and make the work that matters unavoidable.

Stories shape people and organizations. This week’s On Culture shows how narrative drives strategy, collaboration, and care in an AI era.

AI isn’t a mind; use it as a tool. Build psychological closeness, curb clock botching, and rethink value →

Stuck in the trough of disillusionment? Real leadership isn’t hype. It’s clarity, structure & courage when momentum dips.

Performance isn’t a mystery. It’s design. This week’s On Culture explores how leaders can create the conditions teams need to thrive.

Leadership in grief means presence, not performance. This week’s On Culture explores tension, trust, & the courage to stay human.

Fear taxes performance; courage compounds it. See how brave orgs reset structure, rehearse risk & reward growth—this week in On Culture

AI is the engine—leadership is the architect. Frontier firms, moral AI, upskilling, mental health, generational disillusionment—unpack it all in On Culture

Why people stay: work that matters, leaders we trust, skills that grow, thinking that wins. Unpack it in this week’s On Culture

AI, trust, and purpose are rewriting work. See how leaders redesign tasks, contracts, and culture to future-proof teams.

Frontier Firms, geopolitical chess, mattering, the Great Stay, and Severance—what links them? Culture by design. Read On Culture

Discover how AI literacy is reshaping opportunity—outpacing degrees, driving innovation, and redefining who’s left behind.