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Accelerating the Map → Change → Learn loop to guide enterprise AI adoption
Why we need a new approach to learning, change and digital capability development that gives leaders the tools & confidence to grow smart organisations…
 • Lee Bryant
Re-Focusing Leadership on AI Readiness & Enablement
If Enterprise AI's prize is smarter organisations, then we need leadership functions to engage deeply with AI readiness and steering, rather than just…
 • Lee Bryant
Can AI Help Reverse the Oversimplification of Management?
For leaders to be programmers of their organisational OS, they need AI's help in embracing complexity and reality, rather than relying on simplistic…
 • Lee Bryant
Big Picture Leadership Techniques for Human-AI Teaming Readiness
Practical Steps for Leaders to Reduce Drift and Build a Coherent Environment for Centaur Teams
 • Cerys Hearsey
Context Plumbing, Intent Sensing and an AI Reverse Uno on Social Media Feeds?
Enterprise AI looking a better bet than consumer AI, plus some links and ideas about how personal AI agents could help improve both of them
 • Lee Bryant
Leading Collaborative Centaur Teams
How Leaders Design the Language of Collaboration Between People and Agents.
 • Cerys Hearsey
Metamorphoses: "Of Bodies Chang'd to Various Forms, I Sing"
New models, evidence of hyperproductivity, automated governance and the potential for leaders to guide the programmable organisation like poets
 • Lee Bryant
Small Models, Real Change: How Leaders Can Use SLMs to Make AI Fit Their World
Why the next stage of AI adoption isn’t about going bigger, but about getting closer - to context, culture, and control.
 • Cerys Hearsey
AI Agents & Skills, Plus What Games Can Teach us About Adoption
Some useful signals of enterprise AI adoption are emerging - how can agentic AI and agent skills take this to the next level?
 • Lee Bryant
Mapping AI Value Pathways
How leaders can use a simple Map → Build → Learn loop to turn scattered AI pilots into a coherent organisational world of value.
 • Cerys Hearsey
Enterprise AI Needs Leadership Ambition to Move Beyond the 'Faster Horses' Stage
A widening gap between vendor hype and adoption reality, and why enterprise AI needs to see way beyond the short-term AI bubble to realise its potential
 • Lee Bryant
A Leader’s Guide to World-Building in the AI-Augmented Enterprise
A leadership framework for world building, and key mindset shifts that open up a new way of thinking about the role of non-technical leaders in the…
 • Cerys Hearsey and Lee Bryant
AI Round-up: Both Destroyer and Maker of Worlds?
Interesting new developments in models big and small, plus a note about the increasing focus on world models and world building as the next frontier for…
 • Lee Bryant
Building the Future of Organisational Learning One Agent at a Time
How can L&D teams explore agentic tools while staying grounded in learner needs?
 • Cerys Hearsey
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