I joined Dan Dworkis on The Emergency Mind Podcast to talk about the gap between how organizations think work gets done and how it actually does — covering informal networks, brokers, leverage points, and what network maps reveal that org charts never will.

Most AI adoption programs fail not because of the technology, but because they rely on the wrong people to spread it. This piece introduces a three-circle framework — Adopters, Anchors, and Translators — and shows how identifying where they overlap reveals the Champions, Ambassadors, Signal Carriers, and Program Catalysts who actually move organizational behavior.

Most M&A integrations don't fail because the strategy was wrong. They fail because the informal organization — the networks, beliefs, and relationships that determine how work actually gets done — never gets examined. Here's what the data shows.