No More Secret Rulebooks: What AI Will Expose About Your Culture
No More Secret Rulebooks: What AI Will Expose About Your Culture Why serious AI projects force change leaders to confront the gap between stated values and real behavior—and how to turn that into an advantage. Quick Video If you lead change, you’ve always had to navigate two versions of your organization: The one in the slide decks, values statements, and town halls. And the one people quietly describe over coffee: “Here’s how things really work.” Until now, those two versio
Richard Diamond
Dec 4, 20256 min read
Raising AI: Why It’s More Like Having a Baby Than Building a House
Why AI Is More Like Having a Baby Than Building a House Missteps and hallucinations are natural growing pains, not a verdict on the technology. Most of the public conversation about AI still sounds like a construction meeting. We talk about “building a model,” “deploying a system,” “rolling out a solution.” We expect that, after some testing and debugging, the system will do what it’s supposed to do, just like a new building is expected to stand straight, keep the rain out, a
Richard Diamond
Dec 2, 20256 min read
Organizational Charts for Reality
Modernizing an Industrial-Revolution Artifact for Mid-21st-Century Enterprises—Without Breaking the Org Chart Abstract Organization charts were designed for an industrial-era reality where work was primarily human labor, information moved slowly, and control depended on hierarchical supervision. Mid-21st-century enterprises operate as socio-technical systems: outcomes are produced by humans working through core platforms (ERP, CRM, PLM, MES, CMS, workflow, data platforms) and
Richard Diamond
Oct 15, 20256 min read
Following up on the Death and Life of the Green Building Movement
This post captures an action plan following "the Death and Life of the Green Building Movement" summit from SoRD September 20, 2025. Let's get to work.
Jennifer Diamond
Oct 8, 202513 min read
LF25 Part 3 of 3 - The Garden and the Gourd: Biophilic Wisdom in the Midst of Leadership Frustration
JD-Lan Su Yuan in Portland From the Conference Room to the Garden Gate I left Living Future 25 with a head full of systems, urgency, and disappointment—not at the event, but at the deja vu. The conversations were good. Some were great! The people were smart, and some were brilliant. The intentions were solid, the innovations real. And still, the themes felt eerily similar to ones we’ve held for over a decade: persuasion fatigue, political delay, civic disinvestment . So on th
Jennifer Diamond
May 14, 20255 min read
LF25 Part 2 of 3 - Why Are We Still Having This Conversation?
Still trying to “make the case” for sustainability? Maybe it’s not a messaging problem—it’s a resistance system. A sharp, honest look at why good leaders keep repeating themselves and how to move forward with clarity.
Jennifer Diamond
May 14, 20254 min read