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Leadership and people for Irish businesses. Systems over slogans. Hiring, culture, and the first ten people, deadpan about management fashion.
You cannot train your way out of a retention problem. Irish tech firms are discovering this the hard way, as the engineers who built their systems stop teaching anyone how they work. The mentorship crisis in Irish tech...
Knowledge that lives in one person's head is not an asset. It is a liability with a countdown clock. Irish tech companies discovered this the hard way when the 2023 layoff wave hit. Entire teams were restructured,...
The generation most likely to adopt AI tools at work is not the one that grew up with a smartphone glued to their hand. It is the one that learned to code in BASIC, survived three recessions, and has spent the last...
Waiting for certainty before you act is itself a decision. It just happens to be one that leaves someone else in charge of the outcome. Meta's settlement with Texas over AI-driven facial recognition came in at $1.4...
If your team can't decompress after work, you don't have a wellness problem. You have a revenue problem. The research is stark. A 2024 survey by Ibec found that over half of Irish employees working remotely reported...
A committee without a deadline is just a calendar event with good intentions. Ireland's new chip advisory council lands at a moment when the global semiconductor race has never been more consequential, or more...
Resilience is not a strategy. It is what you need when your strategy has failed and you haven't admitted it yet. Irish business culture has always valued the person who keeps going. There's genuine virtue in that. You...
The founder who can commercialise a decade of lab research is rarely the same person who knows how to run a 40-person organisation without breaking it. That gap is where Irish knowledge transfer ventures are quietly...
Speed is not a hiring strategy. It is a way of feeling productive while making expensive mistakes. Ireland's tech sector spent roughly three years watching headcount become the primary metric of ambition. Hire fast,...
The loudest voices on AI are almost never the ones actually making it work. The InsTech leaders worth listening to are the ones who will look you in the eye and tell you AI is not the answer to your problems. That is...
When a CEO leaves a company with revenues north of €11 billion, the official language is always the same: "stepping down," "right time," "new chapter." Read the share price instead. Flutter...
Seven in ten compliance professionals name AI-enabled scams as their top threat right now. That is not a future risk to file away. That is a boardroom problem that arrived before most governance frameworks were ready...
The transport industry has a driver shortage. Its answer, for thirty years, has been to look harder for the same person it always hired. Dublin Bus is trying something different. The National Transport Authority's own...
Three-quarters of Irish workers are actively considering a career change. Not drifting. Not vaguely curious. Actively considering it. If your workforce mirrors that number, you are looking at a slow bleed that no free...
Three-quarters of Irish employees want to change careers. Most of them will do it by walking out your door. That is not a prediction. That is the current state of play in the Irish labour market, where workers are...
Three-quarters of Irish employees say they want to change careers. Almost none of them do. That gap between wanting and doing is not laziness. It is a set of very specific, very fixable barriers that most employers and...
Ireland wins the science competitions. It produces the Young Scientists, the BT finalists, the students who place in international coding and engineering contests. Then it exports them to Google, Meta, or a Boston...
Tom Shortt didn't walk into his first leadership role carrying a Harvard case study. He walked in carrying a grease gun. The BMS Engineering Director spent his early years doing what a lot of rural Irish lads did before...
The most uncomfortable seat in European politics right now is not in Brussels. It is in Dublin, where Ireland holds the EU Council presidency at the precise moment the bloc wants to clamp down on the industry that has...