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AI is commoditising your decisions

AI is commoditising your decisions

The more you ask it, the more you look like your competitors.

Loyalty isn’t leadership

Loyalty isn’t leadership

Promoting your longest-serving people feels fair. Until everything lands back on your desk.

The price of the decisions you keep putting off

The price of the decisions you keep putting off

Either you decide, or the calendar decides for you.

Are you still climbing the stairs one step at a time?

Are you still climbing the stairs one step at a time?

When disruption hits, the question isn’t who’s fallen behind, but how many processes you keep alive just because they’ve always been there.

Your best product won’t save you

Your best product won’t save you

Nobody chooses to do a bad job, but choosing to leave things as they are is still a choice.

Tool/app: BlaBlaNote

Tool/app: BlaBlaNote

4 recommendations for seeing what no one else looks at.

Films: The Big Short and Moneyball

Films: The Big Short and Moneyball

4 recommendations for seeing what no one else looks at.

Book: Scale, de Geoffrey West

Book: Scale, de Geoffrey West

4 recommendations for seeing what no one else looks at.

Podcast: Acquired

Podcast: Acquired

4 recommendations for seeing what no one else looks at.

Either you make the decisions or they get made for you

Either you make the decisions or they get made for you

A company’s highest cost never shows up on the P&L.

Are You Running the Business or Running the Machine?

Are You Running the Business or Running the Machine?

Your company’s problem probably isn’t money.

Wimbledon sells what it hides

Wimbledon sells what it hides

The luxury playbook applied to a tennis tournament (and to your business)

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