If Enterprise AI's prize is smarter organisations, then we need leadership functions to engage deeply with AI readiness and steering, rather than just buying more technology
Strong framing on context engineering as the real work here. Most orgs are still treating AI like they treated cloud adoption ten years ago, thinking its jsut infrastructure to buy instead of a fundamental redesign of how work flows. The centaur teams concept nails the real challenge because it requires codifying all those implicit norms and workflows that people just know but never document. I've watched companies skip this step and wonder why their AI agents keep making nonsensical decisions, its always because nobody bothered to make the invisible visible first.
Agreed. This is such an easily solvable problem, and brings immediate benefits with or without AI, and yet it is not the way most managers are used to working. Over the past two decades we have taught so many teams the wonders of 'writing things down' or collaborating in wiki spaces, and they are typically amazed by the productivity improvements ... and yet ... the meeting-centric culture of their organisations often means they revert to old ways of working unless managers take the lead and set an example.
Strong framing on context engineering as the real work here. Most orgs are still treating AI like they treated cloud adoption ten years ago, thinking its jsut infrastructure to buy instead of a fundamental redesign of how work flows. The centaur teams concept nails the real challenge because it requires codifying all those implicit norms and workflows that people just know but never document. I've watched companies skip this step and wonder why their AI agents keep making nonsensical decisions, its always because nobody bothered to make the invisible visible first.
Agreed. This is such an easily solvable problem, and brings immediate benefits with or without AI, and yet it is not the way most managers are used to working. Over the past two decades we have taught so many teams the wonders of 'writing things down' or collaborating in wiki spaces, and they are typically amazed by the productivity improvements ... and yet ... the meeting-centric culture of their organisations often means they revert to old ways of working unless managers take the lead and set an example.
"Leaders as Programmers of the Organisation"
I like this.