For most of my career, your impact grew as you increased your team's headcount. If you wanted to do more, you had to manage more. Senior meant managing people who managed people. The org chart was the …
AI Transformation Is a Sequencing Problem
Every business I know is preparing to transform with AI. Very few are actually transforming. The pattern is always the same: someone forms a working group. They commission a governance framework. They …
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The Meeting That Can’t Be Automated
I spent six weeks building a presentation about AI. I talk about summarising online classes, creating tasks in real time for educators, algorithms that tell a consultant whether a student is likely to …
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Goodhart’s Law: Why Your Metrics Are Lying to You
Charles Goodhart was a British economist. In 1975, he observed something about monetary policy that turned out to apply to almost everything in management. Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure …
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The Laws They Don’t Teach: Six Mental Models Every Tech Leader Needs
Nobody put these on the syllabus. You did not learn them in your MBA, your computer science degree, or your first management training programme. They come from sociology, systems theory, military …
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The Engineering Management Route in 2026: My Honest P.O.V.
Someone on my team asked me recently whether they should move into engineering management. Strong senior IC — technically excellent, good communicator, starting to feel the ceiling. Three years ago …
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