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How We Survived the Agent Apocalypse
Moltbook may not contain the droids we are looking for, but there is real potential in agentic systems both within the enterprise and in agentic…
 • Lee Bryant
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
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
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
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
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
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
Doing the Work: Why Learning is Key to Agentic AI Success & Avoiding Workslop
Why we need to be ready to 'do the work' of organisational transformation if we are to realise the potential of enterprise AI, and thinking about what…
 • Lee Bryant
AI Learning & Adoption Goes Further and Faster in Co-Op Mode
How can shared practice, not individual use, help accelerate learning and sustainable adoption of AI?
 • Cerys Hearsey
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