There’s a question floating around in many conversations, leadership meetings, hiring decisions, at home and in the way companies are quietly restructuring. Most people aren’t saying it directly, but it’s there. SAS CTO Bryan Harris did say it directly at SAS Innovate 2026, which set the stage for this genuinely
There is a moment in every organization when you realize culture is not just "how we do things around here." It’s why we do them. Culture manifests in how we talk to each other, how we make decisions when things aren’t obvious and the tradeoffs we’re willing to live with.
If you scroll through job postings right now, you’ll see a pattern. Plenty of roles asking people to train models, fine-tune outputs, build agents and automate workflows. Fewer ones are asking for the kind of judgment that used to sit at the center of how decisions get made. At the
