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Stop trying to predict. Start building to endure.
Some of Japan’s oldest companies have survived wars, depressions, technological revolutions, and enormous social change. Their advantage was not better forecasting. It was architecture: a clear philosophy, an ultra-long-term perspective, deeply embedded values, disciplined evolution, patient capital, and careful succession planning. In other words, they designed organisations capable of absorbing uncertainty.
That is increasingly the strategic challenge. AI, geopolitics, climate, demographics and accelerating technological change make accurate prediction harder, not easier. As I argue in STOP PREDICTING: 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to see what was coming, the objective is not to know exactly what happens next. It is to build an organisation that remains effective when your assumptions turn out to be wrong.
https://hbr.org/2026/08/how-japans-oldest-companies-navigate-uncertainty
The leadership question
Is your organisation designed around a forecast, or designed to survive when the forecast is wrong?
The future fitness move
Build the architecture for uncertainty: strong purpose, long-term thinking, strategic options, patient investment, and the ability to adapt without losing your identity.
The other prompts:
Embrace Your Apex Predators: AI enables a new breed of employee ready to rewrite the rules. CEOs need to champion them ASAP
Any company of scale now has at least a dozen employees privately mastering the capabilities of AI to do the work of many specialists. There’s nothing ordinary about these early adopters. In fact, they are best described as apex predators.
Now more than ever, CIOs need to be change agents
Change management has become a huge part of the job as AI presents new challenges to employee adoption.
https://www.cio.com/article/4215423/now-more-than-ever-cios-need-to-be-change-agents.html
Which Anti-Aging Ideas Actually Work? XPrize Healthspan Is Testing The Best Longevity Innovations
The projects are as varied as you might expect approaches to longevity to be—ranging from the latest anti-aging trends in Asia involving extracellular vesicles, to stem cells and more traditional, well-established programs that include exercise and supplements
https://time.com/article/2026/08/21/xprize-healthspan-best-longevity-ideas-top-10/
Understanding Cultural Intelligence
As the workforce has become more geographically diverse, both HR and management in general have had to become more savvy about managing people from diverse countries. It is therefore unsurprising that the concept of cultural intelligence is now firmly on HR’s agenda.
https://www.hrotoday.com/magazine/hro-today-emea/understanding-cultural-intelligence/
Retaking control of the sustainability 2.0 agenda
Sustainability is reaching an inflection point. Today’s dominant models — accounting, rollback, power politics, anti-corporate approaches and career-driven — each have serious limitations.
https://trellis.net/article/retaking-control-of-the-sustainability-2-0-agenda/
Scientists build tiny robots without motors that can fly using sound waves alone
A century-old trick for tuning musical instruments has been repurposed to power robots that fly, float and steer themselves using nothing but sound waves.
How engineered microbes could help feed the world’s crops
Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some companies hope microbes can help.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/01/1143195/microbe-fertilizer-switch-bioworks/
How Japan’s Oldest Companies Navigate Uncertainty
Their advantage came not from better forecasting but from a durable architecture: a clear philosophy, an ultra-long-term perspective, values embedded in operations, disciplined evolution, patient capital, and careful succession planning
https://hbr.org/2026/08/how-japans-oldest-companies-navigate-uncertainty
Content for Clicks: AI Is Tearing Up the Web’s Social Contract
As AI eats traffic, the best sites are locking it out, making reliable information harder to find.
https://singularityhub.com/2026/09/01/content-for-clicks-ai-is-tearing-up-the-webs-social-contract/
Almost nine in 10 organisations unprepared for change
The Global Change Readiness Report from global people development company Insights found that familiarity with change may lead to organisations’ mistaking experience for readiness, with leaders underestimating how disruptive the latest change would be: 39% expected moderate or major disruption, while 51% experienced it.
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/almost-nine-in-10-organisations-unprepared-for-change/
Penrose’s theory of consciousness supported by new quantum evidence
Roger Penrose argued that human thought does things no computer can, so the mind must make use of non-computable quantum mechanics
https://iai.tv/articles/penroses-theory-of-consciousness-supported-by-new-quantum-evidence-auid-3667
Ghost Thought—A Ghostwriter for the Mind, Not the Page
Why Struggling With Ideas Matters
AI Is Moving Faster Than Your Organization. That Is The Real Risk.
AI is not just another technology to roll out. It is a stress test on the organization itself. It shows leaders where decisions are unclear, where workflows are bloated, where meetings are performative, where managers are overloaded, and where activity has been mistaken for value.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithferrazzi/2026/09/03/ai-is-moving-faster-than-your-organization-that-is-the-real-risk/
