Almost every organisation has now trained its managers on the tools. Very few have given them a view on what AI is for, a way to judge work they did not watch being made, or any means of spotting who is struggling when everybody's output looks the same.

77% of executives think their managers are ready to guide people through AI. 91% of employees say they are not. Both groups are being honest. They are just answering different questions, and the executive answer is the expensive one.

Only 22% of large companies have scaled AI beyond one part of the business. The technology is not the hard part. AI is quietly removing the small interactions that leadership used to run on, and nobody notices because each one looks like a saving.

So, your first engagement survey has come back worse than anyone expected. Here’s what the numbers are telling you, and what to do in the fortnight that follows.

Most company values end up laminated on a wall, and nobody can tell you what they mean on a Tuesday afternoon. Here's how to turn values into behaviours people can see, recruit for and coach, with real examples from Auto Trader and Just Eat.

Ask a leadership team when their culture changed and you get a number, never a date. That vagueness is not a failure of memory. It is what happens when the cause and the symptoms are separated by two doublings, and a way to spot it years before an engagement survey will.

Ten values-based interview questions, with what a strong answer sounds like and what a weak one gives away. How to hire for culture as you scale, without it turning into a vibes check.

Nobody loses their culture in one big moment. It slips quietly, somewhere between 50 and 500 people. Here's what actually breaks as you scale, at which headcounts it breaks, and what the companies that keep their culture do differently.

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