Writing and Publications
The library
Everything I have published.
Grouped by type so it reads as a body of work, not a feed. Each piece links back to where it first lived.
Human-first AI
Future of work
Agents on data you own
Innovation & collaboration
The AI Dad / next generation
World models & quantum
01 / Books
2
Facilitating Collaboration
Notes on facilitation for experienced collaborators. 2016, with Dan Newman.
★ #1 Amazon book
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United We Transform
A practitioner's guide to solving for clarity in the age of artificial intelligence. 2025, with Tom Kehner.
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Two books across the arc of my work, from facilitation to AI. Both are on my author store.
All books on the Amazon author store ↗ On Goodreads ↗
02 / Essays & blog
Most of my writing lives on the Collaboration.Ai blog, where I think out loud about innovation, the future of work, and agentic AI.
Human-first AI
In the AI Age, the #1 Skill Is Agency
ON THE BLOG ↗
Innovation & collaboration
The Innovation Culture Lie
ON THE BLOG ↗
Future of work
5 Agentic Strategies for the Future of Growth
ON THE BLOG ↗
Innovation & collaboration
Your Team's Most Valuable Innovator Doesn't Have a Title
ON THE BLOG ↗
Innovation & collaboration
Collaboration.Ai Acquires Innosabi
ON THE BLOG ↗
Innovation & collaboration
The SBIR Bill 2026: A Once-in-a-Decade Gift to Every Small Innovator in America
ON THE BLOG ↗
Innovation & collaboration
Innovation Workshops: Focus Groups Don't Work Anymore
ON THE BLOG ↗
Innovation & collaboration
Ask Innovation Leaders 'Why' Five Times
ON THE BLOG ↗
Innovation & collaboration
We Need New Innovation Metrics, From 150 Innovation Leaders
ON THE BLOG ↗
Future of work
How to Innovate Your Company's Town Hall
ON THE BLOG ↗
Read more on the Collaboration.Ai blog →
The blog runs to about 3,374 posts and is multi-author, so much of my thinking lives there alongside the team's.
03 / Methods & tools
A library of practice
Relationship Icebreakers & Innovation Makers
A library of facilitation exercises and relationship-building methods, drawn from twenty-five years of practice. Coming to Collaboration.Ai.
More at Collaboration.Ai ↗
Where the writing keeps happening. This is where I post, in public, every week.
More than ten years and 3,546 of my own posts.
The longer thinking on the future of work and human-first AI.
The AI Dad. The human side.