HeyJaredOn the Subject of Leadership
On the Subject of Leadership is a long-form conversation on what really makes organisations work—and why so much leadership advice doesn’t.Each episode features a business leader or practitioner with lessons earned the hard way.
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Pamela Wyatt: Organisations Don't Change Because They're Criticised (opens the original)
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No organisation matches the brochure. The question is what you do about the gap — and whether you have any right to. International development runs on a settled principle: reform must be owned by the government that enacts it, or it will not survive the funding. The outsider advises. The sovereign decides. Adaptation is the professional virtue and imposition the professional sin. The difficulty is that the sector is also, unavoidably, in the business of changing things. My guest this week has sp
Professor Alistair Noble: A University Is For Saving the World (opens the original)
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The Commonwealth supplies less than half the revenue of Australia's universities and sets very nearly all of their terms. We have spent a decade arguing about fees, caps, international student numbers and research funding, and each of those arguments quietly settles the larger question — what universities are actually for — without ever putting it to a vote. Price a humanities degree high enough and you have made a claim about the worth of the humanities. You have simply made it with a spreadshe
David Harvie: The Falcon's Club (opens the original)
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Every incentive system that fails is easy to criticise. The difficult ones are those that work. In the late 1990s David Harvie sold for a firm that ran its Sydney floor as a concentric ring: new arrivals on the outside, moving inward as they succeeded, progressing through a hierarchy of birds toward the falcon. Individual numbers went up twice a day, visible to everyone. He reached the top tier and was flown to New York. He also, some time later, found himself unable to get out of bed. Asked to
Jay Fontanini: You Cannot Skip the Stages (opens the original)
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Nine years of rising conversation about artificial intelligence, and a measured return that has not moved. The comfortable reading is that the technology was oversold. The uncomfortable one is that we have not yet done the work it requires of us. For the better part of a decade the surveys have promised imminent transformation, and for the same decade the earnings impact has stayed flat. Jay Fontanini's argument is that this is not evidence of a fraud but the signature of a general-purpose techn
The Score (opens the original)
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The second essay in the Prior Obligations series, released as articles in audio format, follows a number from birth to dashboard. When a felt condition becomes a score out of one hundred, it acquires an owner, a target, and a budget — everything except a cure — and the question of which way its correlations actually run turns out to matter more than the score itself. In This Article: A score is never merely descriptive; the moment it exists it acquires the apparatus of institutional life, and th
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