Analysis
Reported analysis, sharper commentary, and close reads of the decisions made by companies and their leaders.
Flagship series
Reported analysis and deeper commentary on the forces changing work.
Analysis · The Big Lunch
A Microsoft researcher’s warning surfaced in a publishers’ copyright case. It raises a workplace question that extends beyond the lawsuit: who benefits when human expertise becomes a reusable company asset?
5 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
Bain’s marketing research exposes the distance between adopting a tool and improving a business. The dashboard can show activity long before the work produces better results.
4 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
The annual self-review was already a writing assignment. AI makes it easier to complete—and harder to confuse a polished answer with evidence of a good year.
4 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
Companies are counting the work AI makes disappear. New IBM research suggests they may be paying less attention to the work it creates in its place.
5 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
The leaders building the world’s most powerful AI systems increasingly agree that development may be moving too quickly. The difficult part is getting everyone to slow down without being the only company that does.
5 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
Spellbook sells AI to help lawyers draft and review contracts. Internally, its CEO would now prefer employees send him the rough version of an idea instead of five pages of AI-polished prose.
4 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
An AI-native mortgage company turned off AI for most new hires until they understand the work well enough to challenge the output. The bigger question is what happens when automation removes the work that used to teach people.
7 min
Analysis · The Big Lunch
Why enterprise AI adoption became a login target—and how to make the tools your company already bought genuinely useful.
6 min
Management & leadership
Executive behavior, workplace policy, and the language leaders use to explain their decisions.
Leadership
Siemens CEO Roland Busch gets roughly 200 emails a day. The system for keeping his inbox under 100 transfers the remaining context to everyone else.
2 min