Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

A fully engaged workforce sounds almost like the modern corporate utopia. Everyone wants it. Few can keep it. A place where people care, collaborate, and show up with purpose. But in reality, that vision is slipping through the cracks.

The hype around AI in internal comms is intense and confusing right now. The comms pros I’m talking to aren’t lacking tools. They’re trying to figure out which ones actually work. And asking when it’s OK to use them. And even wondering which ones won’t kill our craft. The fears are legitimate: Will I have a place in the future? Will AI kill my critical thinking? And how do I keep up when the pace of change won’t wait?

This story is based on an interview with Harry Stebbings on the 20VC podcast. You can listen to the episode here. Ever stare at your washing machine and wonder, “Why is this so complicated?” Mike Cannon-Brookes does. After more than two decades building Atlassian, he’s convinced that progress depends on being a little “unreasonable”: challenging the status quo, redesigning what doesn’t work, and empowering others to do the same.