Say no to shiny objects
Every vendor claims their tool will transform your business. Most executives drown in solutions to problems they do not have. Learn to say no.
The Simplification Problem
An AI architect posted 'Naive RAG sucks' with no explanation. When experts stop explaining trade-offs, leaders make million-dollar decisions on opinions.
The Hidden Cost of Fuzzy Decisions
One fuzzy C-suite decision spawned 17 meetings and 43 emails in six weeks. Here's how unclear decisions create a hidden 'meeting tax' on your organization.
AI Pilot Purgatory
Why Your Test Projects Never Scale
AI Isn't Revolutionary. That's Why It Works.
Stop planning the AI revolution. The companies winning with AI picked one slow process and made it work, while everyone else built transformation decks.
AI's (and your) copyright blind spot
When AI-Generated Code belongs to someone else
The Permission Problem
Most leaders assume AI resistance is about training or fear. The real issue is unclear permission structures around experimentation.
The leadership blind spot with AI
A manufacturing CEO spent $250K on AI that sat unused for six months. The thing nobody assesses before buying AI is whether the organization is ready to use it.
What you should be asking about AI
AI demos look impressive until customer satisfaction drops. Five questions to spot the difference between AI that works and AI that just looks good.
AI Strategy or AI Graveyard?
Most companies burn millions on AI that solves the wrong problems. The difference between AI strategy and the AI graveyard is focus.
Data First, AI Second
I watched a company burn $1.3M on AI while their data lived in 12 disconnected systems. The unglamorous data work is what actually pays off.
Are your employees sabotaging your AI strategy?
31% of employees actively resist their company's AI strategy — and the top reason isn't tech concerns, it's feeling devalued. Here's how to fix it.
AI and middle management
Middle managers are caught between AI strategy and frontline execution. Here's how their roles are changing and what skills they need now.
The truth about technology strategy
The boring stuff wins: infrastructure, data governance, change management. Successful tech strategy is the iceberg below the waterline.
Legacy Systems Still Matter
That crusty ERP from 2005 handles 80% of your critical processes. Before you replace everything, here's why legacy systems deserve a strategy seat.
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