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.

Every time we share network analysis findings with a leadership team, the same thing happens. Before anyone engages with what the data means, people start looking for their names.