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Simon Ives
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Guiding Leaders from Human Resources to Human Reverence | HR Technology & Business Transformation Strategist | Keynote Speaker

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Legacy back-office tech isn't a technical debt problem; it's a human flourishing problem. It actively repels the talent you need to build the future and strangles the curiosity required for innovation. Your ERP is your culture, codified. Choose wisely.

#FutureOfWork
Why Australia’s Financial Services Leaders Need to Accelerate their Digital Transformation
Discover what maintaining legacy back-office systems is really costing Australian financial institutions, and what they risk from delaying a digital transformation.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
BCG's new piece points to "agent-led orchestration" as #AI's next step. When AI executes, the uniquely human contribution becomes strategic and ethical oversight. A profound shift for leaders.

#AIStrategy #Leadership #FutureOfWork
AI Is Moving Faster Than Your Workforce Strategy. Are You Ready?
AI is rapidly and radically changing the tasks workers undertake, the talent companies need, and the ways teams interact. Organizations can act to shape the transformation.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The argument that AI won't create sustainable advantage is correct. It's a commoditising force that learns from first-movers and shares the spoils.

This is good news. It forces us to stop looking for durable value in tech and start finding it in what AI cannot copy: our humanity.
AI Won’t Give You a New Sustainable Advantage
Generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) has the potential to radically alter how business is conducted, and there’s no doubt that it will create a lot of value. Companies have used it to identify…
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October 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Giving staff AI tools creates noise. Real innovation needs a system to select and amplify good ideas. The tool is easy. The leadership to build the system is the actual work.

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#Innovation #Leadership #OrgDesign
How Every Employee Can Become an Innovator
It’s not just GenAI. Tools alone won’t unleash innovation—companies must complement new technologies with robust systems to test and scale the best ideas.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The real promise of AI isn't automation, but augmentation. It frees people from repetitive tasks to focus on creativity and complex problem-solving.

This demands a shift from jobs to skills, with HR as the architect of a more human-centric, flourishing workplace.

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#AI #FutureOfWork
The augmented human: Why HR is the architect of an AI-powered future
With AI quickly redefining the future of work, HR has to be deeply involved in the transformation already underway.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The EU #AI Act isn't a tax on innovation; it's a leadership test.

Most see a compliance hurdle. See instead a rare opportunity to build a competitive moat made of trust. Proactively embedding fairness and transparency into high-risk AI is how technology becomes a humanising force.
How SMEs Can Prepare for the EU’s AI Regulations
The EU AI Act, which will take effect fully in August 2026, is transforming how companies of all sizes build and deploy AI systems. Applications of AI labeled as high risk—including common tools like…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
AI's default setting is to reinforce the silos that kill productivity. When departments deploy AI tactically, they create friction and conflicting goals. Leaders must intentionally build a unified strategy, using AI not just for isolated gains, but to connect people and purpose.
Don’t Let AI Reinforce Organizational Silos
Artificial intelligence is boosting efficiency in many organizations, but too often it reinforces functional silos rather than breaking them down. Departments adopt AI tools independently, generating…
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September 29, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Will have to read this one today -> Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics

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Governor Newsom signs SB 53, advancing California’s world-leading artificial intelligence industry | Governor of California
Official website of the State of California
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September 29, 2025 at 9:41 PM
AI's greatest strength is its core limitation. It is designed to predict the most probable outcome, making it a powerful engine for generating the average.

But human progress doesn't come from the average. It comes from challenging it.
Challenging the Average With Open-Source AI: Hugging Face’s Thomas Wolf
This Me, Myself, and AI episode features Hugging Face’s chief science officer in conversation with host Sam Ransbotham.
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September 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
AI was meant to boost productivity, but it's creating "workslop": content that looks good but is empty of substance.

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#AI #Workslop #Productivity
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that…
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September 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Even with cheap seats, #UFC Perth will be half empty. Why? AFL Grand Final (Melbourne), NRL Finals (Sydney & Brisbane), Rugby Bledisloe Cup (Auckland). Whoever picked this date did not have the region in mind.
September 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
A leader's refusal to see unwelcome facts is not just bad strategy. It is a failure of respect for their people and for reality itself. Philosopher Mona Simion terms this 'resistance to evidence'—a cognitive malfunction that actively prevents a flourishing workplace.

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#Leadership
Resistance to Evidence
Cambridge Core - Epistemology and Metaphysics - Resistance to Evidence
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September 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The rush to replace entry-level jobs with AI confuses an expense with an investment.

Junior roles aren't just for executing rote tasks; they are the foundry for your future leaders.

The true value of AI is not replacement, but redesigning work to accelerate human judgment.
The Perils of Using AI to Replace Entry-Level Jobs
AI is reshaping work, but eliminating entry-level jobs is short-sighted. These roles are crucial for developing future leaders, fostering innovation, enriching organizational culture, and protecting…
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September 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A new report shows the gap between AI principles and practice. Ethical governance isn't a brake, it's the steering wheel. It's how leaders ensure technology serves humanity. #AIEthics

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Managing the ethical risks of artificial intelligence | Queensland Audit Office
Artificial intelligence (AI) offers opportunities for the public sector to achieve better social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It can provide operational efficiencies, support…
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September 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
We're told #AI drives #innovation. New research finds it can do the opposite by reducing the human-to-human conversations that spark new ideas.

A powerful mitigator? Not less AI, but more employee autonomy to decide how and when it's used. Trust people, not just tools.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
95% of AI pilots fail. The reason isn't the tech, it's the leadership. Successful firms have shapers who prioritise human-centric strategy over mere deployment. They prove that making AI work isn't a technical challenge-it's a fundamentally human one.

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#HumanReverence #AI #Leadership
What Companies with Successful AI Pilots Do Differently
The overwhelming majority of generative AI programs have so far failed to deliver significant business returns. Research across industries reveals that the small percentage of companies who actually are unlocking AI’s potential are distinguished by leaders who act as “shapers,” aligning technical innovation with business strategy, fostering trust, driving adoption, and embedding AI responsibly into operations. These leaders consistently exhibit five crucial behaviors: strategic agility, human centricity, applied curiosity, performance drive, and ethical stewardship. Rather than concentrating authority in a single AI champion, successful firms need to intentionally cultivate these skills in leaders across teams and levels, so that leadership will become an accelerant, not a barrier, to AI transformation.
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September 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warns: AI's impact on white-collar jobs is coming fast and hard. Expect significant job changes within 1-5 years. This isn't hypothetical; it's already happening internally at AI companies.

#AI #FutureOfWork

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September 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
New research suggests we should focus on "communication actions," not the tools themselves. The medium doesn't matter as much as the human interaction it enables.

Define the action, then choose the tool.

#HumanReverence #FutureOfWork #HRTech

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Team communication actions: Beyond the dichotomy of face-to-face versus virtual interactions in teams
In this article, we introduce the novel concept of team communication actions, which reflects the actions that team members perform over communication…
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September 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The articles that made it into the latest edition of Philosophers Annual have been announced.

#Philosophy

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The Philosopher's Annual
https://philosophersannual.org/
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August 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
“A future without work could be much better than ours, overall. But, living in that world, or watching as our old ways passed away, we might still reasonably grieve the loss of the work that once was part of who we were”

#TheFlourishingWorkplace #Philosophy

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ChatGPT and the Meaning of Life: Guest Post by Harvey Lederman
Scott Aaronson’s Brief Foreword: Harvey Lederman is a distinguished analytic philosopher who moved from Princeton to UT Austin a few years ago. Since his arrival, he’s become one of my …
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August 21, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Piloting #GenAI is easy, but creating value is hard. That requires empowering employees to cocreate gen AI products against a North Star that redefines ways of working.

#ArtificialIntelligence #TheFlourishingWorkplace

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August 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Book review: "Concepts in Smart Societies' Next Generation of Human Resources and Technologies" via Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources.

#TheFlourishingWorkplace #HRTech #HRTechStrategy

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Concepts in Smart Societies' Next Generation of Human Resources and Technologies. By Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Antonella Petrillo and Shahid Ul Islam, Boca Raton, USA: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. 376 pp. £108.75. ISBN: 9781032170343
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August 20, 2025 at 5:00 AM
New report from Infosys finds that almost all executives (95%) have experienced at least one type of problematic incident from their use of enterprise #AI.

#ArtificialIntelligence

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Responsible Enterprise AI in the Agentic Era
Companies see RAI as critical enabler for Enterprise AI success but are playing catch up on building out effective RAI capabilities. RAI teams must proactively invest in agile, efficient, and scalable operating models to enable enterprise AI to thrive as the era of Agentic AI dawns and complexity and uncertainty around AI increases.
www.infosys.com
August 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The A(I) Team: Effects of Human-Likeness and Conformity to Gender Stereotypes on Initial Trust and Willingness to Work With an AI Teammate.

#HRTech #HRTechStrategy #TheFlourishingWorkplace

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The A(I) Team: Effects of Human‐Likeness and Conformity to Gender Stereotypes on Initial Trust and Willingness to Work With an AI Teammate
As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies progress, AI agents arise as potential teammates in the workplace. This study explores how the visual representation of the AI agent as well as its confor...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said on the Lex Fridman podcast that Google are reintroducing at least one round of in-person interviews "just to make sure the fundamentals are there".

#TheFlourishingWorkplace

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#471 – Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast
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August 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM