I write to make sense of complexity from two different directions: professional work focused on organizations, strategy, and change, and fiction that explores people, perception, and possibility.
Ideas and Essays
Selected writing on strategy, organizational effectiveness, decision-making, AI, change, and the assumptions that shape how organizations respond.
When the Problem Frame Is the Problem
How cognitive bias can shape problem definition before decision-making even begins.
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Alignment Is Not Agreement
Why organizations can move forward without everyone sharing the same perspective.
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Higher Ed and AI Misinformation: Can Verification Keep Up?
Examining whether higher education’s traditional verification processes can adapt to the speed of AI-generated information without sacrificing rigor or trust.
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Strategic Leadership Requires Measuring Cognitive Depth Over Execution Hours
Examining how legacy performance measures can reward visible effort over judgment, agility, and effective collaboration with emerging technologies.
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Fiction
I’ve also co-written two speculative fiction novels that consider the same questions that interest me professionally—how people interpret change, make meaning, and act under uncertainty.
Private I
2023
A speculative cyber noir exploring individualized AI, identity, surveillance, and what happens when technology becomes intimately personal.
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After Image
2025
A speculative noir exploring trust, power, human-machine collaboration, and the consequences of living alongside an intelligence modeled on oneself.
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Ashlei Watson 