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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
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
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
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 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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