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You onboard employees carefully. Who offboards your AI agents?
Most businesses can't name the AI agents now acting on their own. How to onboard, govern, and off-board them like employees.
26 August 2026Read
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Ideas for leaders thinking about AI.
Articles, perspectives, and practical thinking for senior leaders navigating real AI decisions.
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AI Without an Executive Chef is Hell's Kitchen
AI terminology explained using your favourite restaurant
12 August 2026Read
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What happens when your AI gets switched off?
If your AI went offline on a Friday and nobody knew when it would return, what would you do?
5 August 2026Read
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What Would You Say You Do Here?
AI is flattening the org, but cutting people isn't cutting bureaucracy. Strip the admin, keep the leadership, redesign the work.
22 July 2026Read
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Honey, I Blew Up the AI Bill
Uber's AI budget lasted four months. What token pricing means for anyone putting AI to work.
15 July 2026Read
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Sixty-Three Kettle Boils: What a Year of AI Actually Costs
How much energy are you actually consuming using AI? Not as much as you might think…
8 July 2026Read
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From Asking to Delegating: What Changes When AI Starts Doing the Work
Same AI models, wildly different results. What separates the teams pulling ahead with agentic AI from the ones stuck, and why it's a leadership problem.
1 July 2026Read
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I Hired a Drill Sergeant. It Lives in My Laptop.
Every week, an AI agent reviews how I spent my time, compares it to what I said I'd focus on, and tells me exactly where I went wrong. It doesn't accept excuses.
17 June 2026Read
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You Can't Ask the Big AI Question If You Don't Know What's Possible
The first question a leader asks about AI tends to decide how far the rollout goes. Most reach for a smaller one than they realise. Here's the question worth asking instead.
10 June 2026Read
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Costco Is Using AI to Make Its People Better, Not Fewer
How Costco is using AI to make jobs bigger rather than fewer, and why most companies stall before they start building.
3 June 2026Read
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A Real Monet Got Trashed as AI Art. Your Team Is Doing the Same Thing.
1 in 3 workers admit to sabotaging their company's AI strategy. The cause isn't the tools, it's sentiment. What leaders miss when AI adoption stalls.
20 May 2026Read
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Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: The Tools Were Never the Problem.
What changed between Microsoft's 2025 and 2026 Work Trend Index reports, and why the operating model, not the AI, is where SME adoption actually breaks.
13 May 2026Read
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The Capability Overhang Sitting Inside Your Business
Your organisation likely has more AI capability than it's currently using. Why closing that gap is a leadership challenge, not a technology problem.
6 May 2026Read
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Sequoia Just Published a Blueprint for Killing Middle Management. They're Half Right.
Sequoia's blueprint for eliminating middle management with AI raises important questions. Here's what they got right, and the critical bit they missed.
29 April 2026Read
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Sabotaging AI At Work Is Just Shooting Yourself In The Foot
Resisting AI at work might feel principled, but it's self-defeating. Why leaders who undermine AI adoption are ultimately limiting their own organisations.
22 April 2026Read
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Most AI Strategies Are Doing Maths On People. Very Few Like The Answer.
Most AI strategies are, whether leaders admit it or not, doing maths on people. Why so few organisations are honest about what the numbers actually say.
15 April 2026Read
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How I Built My Own LinkedIn-to-ClickUp CRM Workflow in Under an Hour
A step-by-step account of building a LinkedIn-to-ClickUp CRM workflow using AI in under an hour. Practical automation any leader can replicate today.
18 March 2026Read
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Most of AI Is Sitting on the Shelf
Most AI investment is sitting unused inside organisations. The AI Leader Lab on why adoption stalls, and what leaders need to do differently to unlock it.
11 March 2026Read
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69% of CEOs Barely Use the Thing They're Betting Their Future On
69% of CEOs say AI is critical to their future, yet barely use it themselves. Why this personal gap is quietly undermining every AI strategy they set.
4 March 2026Read
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I Went to Microsoft's AI Tour. They Spent the Day Talking About People.
At Microsoft's AI Tour, the most striking conversations were about people, not technology. On-the-ground observations for leaders navigating the AI shift.
25 February 2026Read
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The 30-Minute Rehearsal That Changed a Leader's Feedback Conversation
How a 30-minute AI rehearsal session transformed one leader's approach to a difficult feedback conversation, and what it reveals about practising leadership.
18 February 2026Read
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Why Leadership Standards Must Evolve Before Technology Does
Technology is evolving faster than leadership practice. Why leaders need to raise their own standards now, before the next wave of AI tools widens the gap.
11 February 2026Read
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Gen Z Isn't Afraid of AI. They're Afraid of You.
Gen Z isn't the obstacle to AI adoption in your organisation. Their managers are. Why the real resistance to AI lives at the leadership layer.
4 February 2026Read
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Decision Laundering Is the New Leadership Failure Mode
Decision laundering, using AI output to disguise weak judgement, is emerging as a critical leadership failure mode. What it looks like and how to avoid it.
28 January 2026Read
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AI Raises the Bar for Leadership. Whether You Like It or Not
AI doesn't lower the bar for leadership. It raises it. Why the premium for strong, accountable leaders is growing, not shrinking, in an AI-augmented world.
21 January 2026Read
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Fast Decisions Are Not Better Decisions If Judgement Is Implied
Speed is not a proxy for quality in AI-assisted decisions. Why fast AI outputs still require human judgement to be worth anything at all.
14 January 2026Read
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AI Doesn't Remove Accountability. It Concentrates It.
Using AI doesn't dilute accountability. It concentrates it. Why leaders who delegate to AI still own the outcome entirely, and always will.
8 January 2026Read
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