It’s Never The Technology
Across the last few weeks, I have been involved in a range of conversations about technology in different domains. Many of those conversations were about the risks. challenges and opportunities of...
View ArticleForward Deployed Entrepreneurs – the Capabilities and the Questions
Realising the value of AI in your organisation is going to require more than technology skills. Are you planning for the entrepreneurial capabilities required to maximise the strategic value for your...
View ArticleTiny Experiments for Portfolio Life
I am asked often to provide advice on managing a portfolio career by people seeking to escape their corporate pasts. I have just read a book that I will happily recommend to anyone seeking to pursue a...
View ArticleEmbracing Abundance
The art of management is mostly a story of efficiency and alignment. We have optimised the exercise of managing within tight time, labour and capital constraints so fully it is what we routinely...
View ArticleEmpower Your People
One of the greatest dangers of the age of artificial intelligence is that it may unintentionally exacerbate one of the worst sins of modern customer experiences – disempowered people. Never put people...
View ArticleForward Deployed Entrepreneurs
Forget Forward Deployed Engineers. The real challenges of your most valuable AI projects aren’t in the engineering. The most complex AI use cases to realise will demand Forward Deployed Entrepreneurs...
View ArticleFive Clusters of AI Use Cases
AI presents a unique transformational opportunity for organisations. Hand wringing has begun about potential job losses as a result of the implementation of AI capabilities. However, it is already...
View ArticleHard Work is Good Work
I recently attended the AICD Governance Forum in Sydney. One odd coincidence struck me across the speakers at the event. In the speeches it was a platitude to refer to the current business environment...
View ArticleDon’t expect thanks
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of...
View ArticleAI Effectiveness
Routine tasks have been automated for centuries. Achieving greater efficiency with AI is an inevitable outcome of the ongoing automation of routine work. The greater challenge that few organisations...
View ArticleLeadership Self-interest
If you have to pick a horse, always back the one called self-interest – colloquial saying The smoky room where real decisions get made The highest forms of leadership are about service. Purposeful...
View ArticleIt’s not the Tech. It’s Adoption
The pattern repeats. The barrier to organisations leveraging new technology is not the technology’s performance or their people’s ability to learn; it’s investment in adoption, the change management...
View ArticleAnyone can…
Technology is often sold with a phrase that with the innovation ‘anyone can..[complete the job the tech supports]’. Do you really want anyone doing the task? Success is about focus and leveraging...
View ArticleEveryday habits for Transforming Australian HealthCare
waking themselves up tohabits which collapse on every blocklike a tidal waveof Hokusai’s sketchesForest Gander, Kata: Bus Stop Life is full of curious coincidences. Late last week, I discovered that...
View ArticleHuman in the Loop
The Lord insists: “You are the one who chooses to live this way. I build cities where things are human. I make Tuscany and you go to live with rock and silence.” Jack Gilbert, Going Wrong Tuscan...
View ArticleThe War with Talent: Job Crafting, Late-stage Capitalism, and Agency
Humans master the dynamics of responsive change. We can leverage human agency to easily drive change in your tired goals, roles and processes. Before we embrace Agentic-AI should we try giving our...
View ArticleThoughts on the More Efficient Production of Crud
There’s nothing quite so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all attributed to Peter Drucker Curating a Mountain of AI output We are on the verge of a creative explosion as...
View ArticleMade-up Stories
Fiction is a good home for the reach of the human mind Deborah Levy Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives...
View ArticleBe Alive!
“Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.” – Tennessee Williams We can all get lost in poorly...
View ArticleFocus and Velocity
What if the answer to your organisation’s challenges is to focus and go faster? One target and a faster horse Attend any leadership program and they will talk about the importance of leaders work in...
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