Why the “professional management” playbook needs a dose of empiricism. Many leaders install a Business Operating System (BOS)—such as EOS, Scaling Up, or OKRs — and achieve significant improvements in execution discipline and traction across their organization. They set annual goals, break them into quarterly “Rocks,” and execute on them. Many leaders are discovering that …
Executives keep hearing that “95 percent of AI projects fail.”The truth is uglier: it’s not the models that are failing, it’s the management operating systems we’re using to leverage them. Most organizations treat AI like a project — scope, budget, work breakdown structure, milestones. But looking for ways to leverage/operationalize AI is prime example of …
In this episode of the Scaling With Agility podcast, host Yuval Yeret welcomes Clemens Adolphs, co-founder of AIce Labs, a company specializing in helping organizations successfully implement AI initiatives. Their conversation dives into the intersection of AI and agility, exploring how to avoid the all-too-common proof-of-concept trap and instead focus on delivering genuine outcomes. From internal market validation to adapting agile …
You’ve probably heard the saying, What gets measured gets managed. But just setting big goals—like OKRs—isn’t enough on its own. If you’re not careful, those goals can pile up, get stuck, or drift out of sight. Before long, you’re wading through what I call the OKR swamp—lots of plans, not much progress. A straightforward way …
Everyone’s asking: How can we use GenAI to grow faster? Sell more? Keep customers longer? Here’s the thing—rolling out GenAI across your business isn’t just about flipping a switch. It’s messy. There’s uncertainty. You’ll try things that don’t work. You’ll learn. You’ll adjust. In other words, it’s precisely the kind of challenge that benefits from …
You start hearing about the next thing—EOS, Agile, Scaling Up, AI. At some point, there’s enough FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) that you feel like you SHOULD do something about it. I’ve had numerous business leaders reach out and ask me to help them “do the thing” (the latest example being AI Transformation). When that’s the …
How do you manage your cross-organization initiatives? How can we leverage the project to product shift for cross-org work? What can we learn from Scrum Product Ownership?
Please don’t write your OKRs using AI. OKRs should reflect YOUR strategy. Your choices. Your strong opinion. Your tradeoffs. What you CAN do is use AI to fix your OKRs. Here are some ways you could go about doing that: Whatever way you create this prompt, I like to save it as context, for example, …
Picture this: You’ve invested in a framework, maybe rolled out Agile, SAFe or OKRs , and your teams are “following the process”. But despite all the activity, the promised business impact just isn’t showing up. Sound familiar? If so, you might be caught in Process Theater – a situation where everyone’s performing the rituals, but …
Are your strategic themes gathering dust like unused New Year’s resolutions? If you’re investing significant energy evaluating initiatives but your enterprise themes seem vague, unconnected, merely decorative, or too restrictive, you might suffer from “Strategy Theater.” The frameworks these organizations use prescribe a strategy artifact. But the leadership team responsible for it hasn’t boarded the …