1️⃣ Culture shows up in interruptions HBR highlights new research on meeting interruptions: a study of 27 employees and leaders found that women and underrepresented employees were interrupted more often, often before finishing their ideas.
💡 Why it matters Culture is not what the slide says. It is who gets airtime, who gets cut off, and who stops trying.
☕ Coffee talk If the same people keep getting interrupted, what exactly is the meeting measuring?
2️⃣ Boards need to leave the status lane BCG says nearly two-thirds of chief transformation officers see board involvement mostly limited to status updates; only 14% call board contributions very useful.
💡 Why it matters Big transformations need directors close enough to shape trade-offs, not just read traffic-light dashboards after the real decisions are gone.
☕ Coffee talk At what point does oversight become a polite word for being late?
3️⃣ GenAI needs an operating spine MIT Sloan Management Review and University of St. Gallen researchers describe an “AI spine” after studying 87 practitioners across 23 large organizations that had scaled GenAI beyond personal productivity.
💡 Why it matters Enterprise AI value comes from redesigning cross-functional workflows, killing weak use cases, and sharing learning across silos.
☕ Coffee talk How many AI pilots are still alive mainly because nobody owns the off switch?