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Strong brains are the AI strategy
Davos framed strong brains as the foundation of prosperity in the age of AI. Inside a company the logic is simpler. As machines absorb routine work, AI raises the value of human judgment at the exact moment it raises the load on it.
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The archive.
Measure the asset, not the offset
Value of investment asks whether a workforce health investment delivered the outcomes it was actually bought for. The instruments already exist. What most organizations lack is the practice.
The studies were right. The yardstick was wrong.
The 2019 trials read as proof that workplace wellbeing does not work found something narrower and more useful. The problem was never the evidence. It was the yardstick.
Work is a determinant of health.
The ILO is putting on the calendar what the evidence has said for years. Leadership behavior, workload, role clarity, communication, and support structures drive worker health, and worker health is a driver of safety. The companies that will win the next decade of workforce health are the ones that stop buying downstream tools to treat symptoms and start redesigning the upstream conditions that produce the outcomes.
Shorter observations.
Why opportunity still follows technical skill.
At Concordia, Jenny Buccos asked why capital, networks, and opportunity still follow technical skill if judgment, creativity, and adaptability matter most. Because we still measure and promote what we always have, and we lack the tools to measure power skills.
Three messages from UNGA81 week.
Four stages in New York during UN General Assembly week, and three messages that will stick: measure what we say we value, job design is brain science, and the science keeps getting better.
Organizations must redesign to prevent psychosocial risks.
Brazil just mandated employer-level psychosocial risk identification and prevention. Spain declared 2026 its Year of Occupational Safety. EU-OSHA's 2026-2028 campaign is titled Together for Mental Health at Work. This is what regulatory convergence looks like when the science is clear.
AI brain fry: organizational factors and job design matter.
A new HBR publication reinforces the WEF and McKinsey Health Institute report on AI, brain health, and brain capital. The headline is not the technology. It is the organizational design problem underneath it.
Four days at the Center for BrainHealth: takeaways from BrainHealth Week.
Notes from BrainHealth Week at UT Dallas: future professionals with innovative ideas about resilience and social connection, the science of super agers, and a panel on workplace brain health with Tate Ringer and Vandana Nayak.
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