001
Self-examination
Michel de Montaigne
Before Artificial Intelligence, There Was Humility
What Montaigne can teach executives about uncertainty, conviction and the limits of their own judgment.
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Essays
Essays on judgment, leadership, institutions and consequential decision-making under conditions of uncertainty.
The Inquiry
The subject is not management technique.
The subject is judgment.
The essays examine ideas that become especially important when information is incomplete, consequences are significant and no framework can remove the responsibility of deciding.
Founding Series
Five thinkers. One continuing inquiry.
002
Falsification
Karl Popper
Why Every AI Project Should Begin With Doubt
What Karl Popper can teach executives about falsification, constructive doubt and the discipline of challenging assumptions before they become certainty.
003
Systems
W. Edwards Deming
Artificial Intelligence Will Not Fix a Broken System
Why leaders must understand the system before asking Artificial Intelligence to improve it — and why better technology can otherwise reproduce the same problems at greater speed and scale.
004
Disproportion
Vilfredo Pareto
Artificial Intelligence Should Not Automate Everything
Why the ability to automate a task does not establish the wisdom of automating it — and how concentration, dependencies and consequences should guide executive attention.
005
Persistence
Albert Camus
The Executive and Sisyphus
What persistence without certainty of outcome can reveal about responsibility, meaning and consequential action.
Forthcoming
Technology provides the context.
Human judgment remains the subject.
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The Executive Library
The Founding Series forms the opening collection of The Executive Library.