Spraying GenAI Everywhere? Try This First
Why scattering AI initiatives without identifying bottlenecks wastes effort — and how a Theory of Constraints lens helps you aim GenAI at the right problems before you automate.
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Making sense of agility, scaling, OKRs, product operating models, and leadership — written from 15+ years in the field.
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From FOMO to JOMO
Adopting AI (or Agile, or OKRs) out of FOMO almost always turns into JOMO — the Joy of Missing Out. A five-question framework for connecting any initiative to your most expensive problems before you commit.
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The Irony of Managing a Product Transformation like a Project
If you're selling a product transformation but managing it like a project — tracking vanity metrics, avoiding kill criteria, and measuring outputs — you're doing exactly what you're asking others to stop doing.
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Moving from Project to Product Ownership for your Cross-Org Initiatives
Cross-org initiatives are strategic bets, but traditional project management consistently fails them. What product-oriented initiative ownership looks like — and why it applies even to non-product transformations.
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Developing Your AI Context as a Product
AI context — system prompts, knowledge bases, and tool configurations — is a product to be continuously discovered and improved. Applying product thinking to AI enablement.
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Transformation or Bling? What My Apple Watch Taught Me About Agile, OKRs, and Real Change
A fancy watch tells time. An Apple Watch changed behavior. The same distinction applies to Agile, OKRs, and SAFe — tools that can either transform or become theater, depending on how you engage with them.
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