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Opinions on AI adoption, technology organizations, and the human wreckage of badly run transformation.
Short pieces. One idea each, usually an argument I had with myself first. Most of these started life on LinkedIn.
I hired five brains. If only one of them is working, they have failed me — and the one I least want doing the thinking is mine.
Clients don't want the hundred-page leather-bound plan. They ask one question: how am I doing?
I was harsh with my team in a meeting I should not have walked into. Then I went back and said so, in front of all of them.
The Palm Pilot changed my handwriting without my noticing. We've been doing the same thing to our businesses for decades.
Tell me what you do, why it matters and who it's for. Everything else is a pitch deck.
Jobs did nothing about the missing keyboard. Not every feature request points toward something better.
A mountain I saw from a tent at 13,200 feet, and what it taught me about designing products.
He paid a customer's dinner bill on his way out and said nothing. No ask, no business review, nobody keeping score.
Short, old, brown, foreign accent. I've never led with any of it, because none of it is the point.
Instead of surgery, people choose a walking stick with the most ornate handle and show off the new tech they bought.
They gave me the hardest portfolio to see if I would fail. I learned capital markets by reading code.
The longer arguments — on AI, culture, leadership and getting things done.
Think about a supercar … how about a McLaren 765 LT Spider? It will cost you only $400,000. V6, twin turbo engine, 0-60 in 2.7 seconds, an absolute engineering beauty!
I can feel it. I can feel it in my bones. Change is coming. Disruptive, transformative, bigger than anything we have seen. And yes. This time, it will be due to Artificial Intelligence.
Baby Boomers have shaped so much of the entire world and we should be unconditionally grateful. They have changed the corporate cultures, the social norms and the definition of success.
Imagine a scenario when you are traveling to be at your child’s graduation in a different city.
I had a boss a while ago, who did not, I repeat, did not get along with one of his peers.
There are many types of managers … Some thrive in constructive debates, some avoid confrontation, some encourage collaboration, some avoid risk and hate making decisions and some want you t
”Hey, how are we doing on the project? Will we deliver the agreed upon business capabilities? Are we on track to deliver?”
I recently eavesdropped on a conversation between my 4-year-old cat Apollo and the 16-week-old puppy Odin.
a woman with exceptional strength or ability, especially one who successfully manages a home, brings up children, and has a full-time job.