A digital thinker and practitioner who is passionate about using technology to create more effective, human organisations that are better adapted to the volatile modern world.
Lee is passionate about using social technology to put humans front and centre of the way we do things in the Twenty-First Century.
He has been playing with words and computers since the age of 10, but it was in the mid-1990s, whilst working in international politics and diplomacy, that he discovered the immense power of the internet to influence and orchestrate change.
He believes social networks, not bureaucracies, are the organising principle of the current era, and is excited about further exploring new forms of highly connected organisations.
Natural habitat:
Food road-tripping through the Iberian peninsula
Obsessions:
Espresso, pixel-perfect alignment, editing
Bad habit:
Obsessive infovore filter feeder
Interests:
Geo-politics, football, food and wine
Videos from the archive
Selected Blog Posts
How We Survived the Agent Apocalypse
An Agentic False Dawn? If you are reading this, then the agent apocalypse didn’t happen, or perhaps my disembodied brain is being used as an agentic personality source connected to the mainframe in Vault 0. I am old enough to remember the heyday of Moltbook -...
Re-Focusing Leadership on AI Readiness & Enablement
Why Focus on AI-Enabled Organisational Change Rather Than Just Technology? As we look ahead to another year of rapid technology-driven change in business and society, it is a good moment to separate the wood from the trees and focus on medium-term goals. Generative AI...
Can AI Help Reverse the Oversimplification of Management?
As we look forward to a new year, it is worth zooming out momentarily from the frenetic race between AI models to focus on some of the enablers, blockers and wider changes that will determine whether organisations are able to use this technology effectively. We now...
Context Plumbing, Intent Sensing and an AI Reverse Uno on Social Media Feeds?
The Enterprise Strikes Back Fears of the AI investment bubble potentially crashing the US stock market have abated slightly, despite AI revenues not yet looking like they will be able to repay the vast sums being invested for some considerable time. But OpenAI is...
Metamorphoses: “Of Bodies Chang’d to Various Forms, I Sing”
In the programmable organisation, leaders need to think less like bureaucrats and more like architects and coders to provide the context and instructions needed to operate smart systems. Or perhaps poets? Poetry and coding are both forms of language that act as...
AI Agents & Skills, Plus What Games Can Teach us About Adoption
Enterprise AI Adoption Signs of Life There are some promising signals emerging around enterprise AI adoption and its impact on companies who are using it. Last month’s Accountable Acceleration: Gen AI Fast-Tracks Into The Enterprise report by Wharton Human-AI Research...