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Reading the headlines is not a preparedness strategy.
Connor Haseley of Ergo argues that executives need a better way to think about geopolitical, economic, and other exogenous risk. Less as episodic disruption, more as part of the operating environment.
The goal is not to predict every headline. It is to be less surprised by the ones that matter.
05/19/2026
When the external signals are this consequential, preparedness becomes an operating discipline. . .
The World Bank projects energy prices to rise 24% this year and overall commodity prices 16%. The WTO expects merchandise trade growth to slow from 4.6% in 2025 to 1.9% in 2026, with a durable oil shock cutting that to 1.4%.
Connor Haseley’s 2C26 breakout: preparedness starts before the headline. Define what ready looks like, identify the issues that matter most, track the right indicators, and decide in advance how the business will respond.
05/15/2026
What if AI’s first great disruption is not labor, but taste?
Not taste in the aesthetic sense. Taste in the executive sense. Judgment. Discernment. Instinct. The human ability to recognize when a decision expands possibility, strengthens identity, and creates energy instead of reinforcing the AI-generated sameness creeping into strategy, culture, and leadership.
Inside this week’s On Culture:
→ Harvard Business Review: How AI agents can flatten strategic differentiation
→ MIT Sloan Management Review: Why responsible AI depends on human expertise
→ Fortune: Managing AI agents as operational coworkers
→ Wired: What stressed AI agents reveal about workplace systems
→ The Guardian: How AI surveillance reshapes worker autonomy
Read the full issue → https://www.culturatisummit.com/post/on-culture-the-death-of-taste
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