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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.
Read the essay →The archive.
Why the next decade of flourishing organizations will be designed, not optimized.
Optimization made sense when the work was repeatable. The work is no longer repeatable. What it now requires is design: of conditions, of recovery, of attention itself.
Read the essay →The CHRO is no longer the endpoint of the conversation.
Brain capital begins with the CHRO and ends with the CFO, the COO, and the board. Why the entry point is not the audience.
Read the essay →Six stressors, in order of leverage.
A practitioner's guide to which of the six psychosocial conditions to intervene on first, and why role clarity is almost always the answer.
Read the essay →What Davos got right, and the one thing it still gets wrong.
Notes from the World Economic Forum on the brain economy, and the gap between the rhetoric on stage and the operating decisions back at the office.
Read the essay →Measurement is the renewal conversation.
Why brain health budgets get cut in the third year, and the architecture that prevents it.
Read the essay →You cannot out-app a toxic operating system.
The wellness category is downstream. The leverage lives upstream, in how work is actually structured.
Read the essay →Shorter observations.
The orphaned issue: why workforce health belongs on the CEO agenda.
The 96/95 manager paradox is an organizational design failure.
What I heard at the European Brain Economy Summit in Brussels.
Organizations must redesign to prevent psychosocial risks.
AI brain fry: organizational factors and job design matter.
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