Field Notes
What becomes visible when you pay attention
Not every insight arrives as a lesson. Some come quietly through travel, nature, language, culture, and the small moments we almost miss.
Field Notes is where observation lives — what becomes visible when you slow down long enough to look.
Some flamenco draws a crowd. Some flamenco breaks your heart.
The first dancers we saw were on the streets of Seville. Full skirts, sharp footwork, bright music. A crowd would gather, phones would ri...
Aaw...aaw the plaintive call came intermittently from the woods behind our house. At first, I thought it was a crow, but the sound wasn't harsh enough. Then I thought perhaps a bird in distress. It ...
Most leaders of technical organizations can name their talent priorities without hesitation: recruit the best, develop them, keep them, and make sure their work drives decisions. What’s harder to name...
Every year, organizations invest heavily in R&D by recruiting talented scientists and engineers, funding studies, and building research infrastructure. The implicit assumption is that if the science i...
Something significant is shifting in the global policy conversation around workforce performance — and most organizational leaders are focused elsewhere while it happens.
That's understandable. When ...
The question most organizations are asking about AI is still the wrong one. It’s not which roles will AI replace.
It’s which human capabilities become mission-critical when AI mediates more of the wo...
In the first article in this series, I introduced the brain economy — the shift toward cognitive, emotional, and social capabilities as the primary drivers of economic value. The McKinsey Health Insti...
Something shifted, but most organizations haven’t caught up yet.
For much of the last century, economic value was measured in tangible assets: factories, equipment, and inventory. Today, more than...
