Perspectives
Perspectives
Some decisions matter twice.
Once when they are made, under pressure, with incomplete information.
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And again later, when someone asks how you got there.
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In regulated, board-level, or high-impact commercial contexts, that second moment is not hypothetical. Scrutiny arrives. Sometimes months later. Sometimes years later. Often from people who were not in the room at the time.
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This article is about how to make decisions that still hold together when that moment comes.
Much of the conversation about genAI assumes that adoption is about capability or speed.
The tools are improving quickly. Costs are low. So the logic goes: firms that hesitate are simply behind.​ That assumption doesn’t hold in professional services.
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In practice, adoption here looks slower, more selective, and more uneven — not because professionals don’t see the benefits, but because they are weighing a very different set of risks.
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This piece explains why.