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10/13/2026

Three drivers decide whether a communication moves someone. Identity based motivation. Trust architecture. Behavioral activation. None of them fire on data or craft alone. The Human Factor Podcast. New episode out now.

10/13/2026

The Misread looked at how structural friction gets read as individual resistance. This one from the March archive shows where the friction gets built: policy stacked where leadership should be, and nobody responsible for saying yes.

Policy as Proxy Leadership Rules Don’t Lead People. Leaders Do. Issue 257, March 26, 2026 A vice president of operations I worked with at a client

10/13/2026

Learning is not what an organization knows. It is what it does differently because of what it knows.

New issue of Ideas and Innovations: Organizational Memory Loss

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10/13/2026

By the nature of where you sit in an organization, you are very, very close to an elephant.

That is what Jenny Vazquez-Newsum tells executives, and she says they take it well once they hear the second half: it is the nature of the position, not a verdict on the person. A senior seat gives a wide view of many functions and a warped view of the whole. The work is widening it, and the people who can see the elephant are usually the ones standing at the margins.

From Episode 036 of The Human Factor Podcast: The Misread.

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10/13/2026

Forgetting is built into how organizations work. Turnover, reorganization, and tool churn quietly erase what learning put in place. Organizational memory is a system, not a habit.

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10/12/2026

Organizational knowledge creates a dual reality: priceless assets AND powerful barriers to change. Veteran employees' capabilities ironically create the fiercest obstacles to transformation efforts. https://hubs.ly/Q04ym_4H0

10/12/2026

A Stanford analysis ran 91 English proficiency essays through seven AI detectors. On average 61 percent came back flagged as machine written.

Every one was written by a student working in a second language.



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10/12/2026

We have spent years asking whether AI is ready for us. Kevin Novak reframes the question in this solo episode of the Human Factor Podcast. Watch the full episode. Subscribe at https://hubs.ly/Q04ymLRq0.

10/12/2026

Every person in your organization is operating under a contract nobody signed. Transformation almost always rewrites that contract unilaterally. Explore this week's issue.
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10/12/2026

Ethics training, every year. Leadership, every year. Finance, risk, expense management, procurement. Organizations do all of it, every year, to mitigate risk. And change? That gets left to two people in HR.

Twenty seconds from Grant Van Ulbrich that ask the question the rest of the episode answers.

Dr Grant Van Ulbrich, creator of Scared So What, on Season 3 of The Human Factor Podcast. Full episode: https://hubs.ly/Q04ykWdC0