Coming Attractions: 2026

Happy New Year!
Just to let you know…

The coming year will see a number of publications from me. I will, of course, keep you informed.

First, regarding AI.   I’ve published 4 pieces about AI in the past and am returning to it as a specific, powerful, disruptive, and expensive form of organizational change.  I am struck by how little focus AI receives in terms of the leading of the organizational change (organizational change being a longstanding focus of mine).  AI centers and circular financing notwithstanding, in the end, using AI effectively will come down, like other technological change has, to behavioral change which will turn on organizational change—and its leadership.

I'll be posting at least 4 pieces about AI and organizational change over the first half of 2026. I'm glad to be working again with established AI publisher, Deborah Yao, this time for her start-up The AI Innovator.

here are a few of my previous pieces on AI...
Talking (and Thinking) Carefully About AI
6 Steps to AI Governance in Healthcare
Triage in a Pandemic: Can AI Help Ration Access to Care?
Artificial Intelligence: The Next Big Change is Already Here

 
Second, my book with Paul Brown and Andre Kotze will come out before 9/11/26, the 25th anniversary of 9/11/01. Our working title is Rising from Ground Zero: The FDNY's Path through the Crisis of 9/11 to Transformation. This book captures and honors the experience of the 40+ FDNY first responders to the fires and collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11/01 whom we interviewed over the last 8 years regarding their experiences on 9/11 and on the many days that followed. We present many, many quotations from those lengthy interviews and offer commentary, particularly lessons for leaders in crisis, hard times, and organizational change.  We hope that the words in this book will help us all to do better, to lead better, and to follow better, particularly when it matters most.  

Here's where you can read about our 5 published articles based on this research (including HBR, Wharton, and Firehouse).

In the meantime... another running of Leading Organizational Change is coming on 2/2/26-2/5/26 at Wharton Exec Ed. Join us!