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Who Decides (and how) with AI at the Table?
When machines ask good questions, it’s leaders who are forced to show their working.
 • Cerys Hearsey
Claude Code, but for Management
AI-enhanced software development has shown what's possible; doing the same for the management of process work is also possible if leaders can focus on…
 • Lee Bryant
Why Does Individual AI Literacy Fail to Translate into Organisational Impact?
Why Enterprise AI demands leadership readiness, not just technical adoption
 • Cerys Hearsey
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

December 2025

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

November 2025

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
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