Agility ·
Forever Flywheels?
Flywheels require consistent turns, not one-time framework installations. Three agility flywheels worth building — safety nets, working ON the org, and descaling — and the doom loops that destroy them.
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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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Agile ·
Uncomfortable Truths About The Agile Industry's Focus on Vanity vs Outcomes
The agile industry teaches outcomes over outputs, then measures itself in certifications and butts on seats. A crossover conversation with Jim Sammons and Rich Visotcky about why that is an economics problem rather than a character problem, and what it takes to break out of it.
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Clemens Adolphs on the Role of Agility in Getting AI Investments Right
AI initiatives die in the proof-of-concept stage when they are run as fixed-scope projects. Clemens Adolphs and I unpack why AI work needs real product discovery, internal market validation, and outcome-based steering instead of a gantt chart with the labels filed off.
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How to Drive Towards Business Agility Without Falling Into Transformation Theater - Fireside Chat with Jesper Boeg
Business agility is not Scrum for your sales team. Jesper Boeg and I work through what it actually means, why leadership teams doing standups is the most common way to get it wrong, and the two structural signals that tell you whether a transformation is real: how you are organized, and where the funding sits.
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A Simple Way to Get a Grip on Your Goals
A practical framework for getting clarity on goals before rushing to OKRs or any goal-setting system. The clarity exercise that separates directional intent from measurable outcomes.
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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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