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Leadership and people for Irish businesses. Systems over slogans. Hiring, culture, and the first ten people, deadpan about management fashion.
Longevity is not glamorous. It does not trend on LinkedIn and it will not get you on a panel at a tech conference. But Musgrave Group, founded in Cork in 1876, turns over roughly €4 billion annually across SuperValu,...
When a bank the size of Barclays announces it is cutting 5,000 roles because machines can now do the work cheaper and faster, that is not a restructuring story. That is a signal. Irish financial services leaders should...
Ban AI in your workplace and your staff will use it on their phones instead. The ban will hold for about a fortnight. That is the position Irish leaders are finding themselves in right now. They issued a policy, they...
The worst thing a CEO can do in a pay negotiation is walk in without knowing the number that breaks the business. The second worst thing is walking in without knowing the number that loses the team. Right now, Irish...
The businesses that shape regulation always do better than the ones that comply with it. Ireland's AI sandbox is the clearest proof of that principle available to any Irish executive right now, and most of them are...
The loneliest seat in any Irish company is the one with the best view. Not lonely in the way people imagine. There are plenty of meetings, plenty of demands on your time, plenty of people wanting something from you. The...
When a company valued at roughly $300 billion sets up in your city, the polite word for what happens next is "competition." The honest word is "war." OpenAI's decision to base its European...
Confidence without evidence is just noise. Confidence with a plan behind it is leadership. The ESRI's most recent quarterly commentary landed with the enthusiasm of a damp planning notice. "Small gains." That...
You cannot retain what you never built for. Irish companies are recruiting graduates with one hand and watching them walk to Grand Canal Dock's tech campuses with the other, and the gap between the two is a skills...
You cannot out-salary Google. That is not a negotiating position, it is arithmetic. And yet hundreds of mid-market Irish firms are trying to do exactly that, watching their best people walk across the Liffey for a...
The most valuable thing an outgoing tech executive carries out the door is not their laptop. It is the three years of pipeline conversations, product roadmap decisions, and pricing strategies stored entirely in their...
Ireland has a women-in-STEM problem that no graduate intake is going to fix. The country hires them, onboards them, and then watches them walk out the door before they get anywhere near a leadership role. The research...
You built the business. Revenue is up. The tools work. And you feel worse than you did three years ago. That is not a personal failing. It is a structural problem, and it is spreading fast across Irish enterprise. The...
Two Harvard students proved in October 2024 that off-the-shelf Meta Ray-Ban glasses, combined with facial recognition software, could identify a stranger's name, address, and phone number within seconds of looking at...
The shelves are empty in a Kilkenny bookshop that outlasted two recessions, a pandemic, and the rise of Amazon. Thirty-two years of trading, and it is gone. The owner did not fail. The system failed around her. The...
The most revealing career move in Irish tech this year was not a promotion. It was a step down, chosen deliberately, by someone who already knew how to do the senior job. Laura Kealy had built real analytical...
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...