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The Bear, the Brigade, and the Future of Work
The Meetings You're Not Having Are Giving You Time to Think
How Alan built a €693M company with almost no meetings. Why written culture creates the organisational intelligence that AI can actually use.
Warum deine Abwehrhaltung gegen KI ein strategischer Fehler ist
Erfahre, warum der Fokus auf die Grenzen von KI ein strategischer Fehler für Führungskräfte ist. Lerne, wie du von einer defensiven Haltung zu einer offensiven Strategie wechselst und KI für Wachstum und Zukunftsfähigkeit deiner Organisation nutzt.
Why Your Resistance to AI is a Strategic Failure
Discover why focusing on AI's limitations is a strategic error for leaders. Learn how to shift from a defensive posture to an offensive strategy, leveraging AI for organizational growth and readiness.
Was "AI-Readiness" Wirklich Bedeutet
KI-Readiness misst nicht nur den Reifegrad, sondern auch die Lernfähigkeit. Warum echte Zukunftsfähigkeit darin liegt, aus Komplexität und Reibung zu lernen.
What AI-Readiness Really Means
AI-readiness isn’t about maturity scores or new tools, it’s about how organisations learn from their own complexity. Explore how the Forest–Orchard Resilience System (FORS) helps leaders turn friction into intelligence and build antifragile cultures that thrive under change.
AI Transformation Demands Leadership Transformation
How executives can develop the courage, skills, and vision to redesign their organisations, and their own roles, for the AI era
How Success Breeds Fragility
Success turns into fragility when leaders cling to the “bird in hand.” In the AI era, resilience comes from letting go and renewing.
My Vision for AI-Readiness
FORS is a business operating system enabling compact, AI-augmented teams to replace rigid hierarchies with adaptive, outcome-accountable structures.
FORS: My Vision for Organisational AI-Readiness
Download the FORS Executive Briefing, a visionary roadmap for AI-ready organisations. Learn how to declutter processes and build resilient, adaptive teams.
Has Walmart Triggered the Tipping Point for AI?
Walmart's partnership with OpenAI to embed AI training across its workforce signals a tipping point—small, augmented teams can now replace entire departments, demanding organizational redesign.
Die menschliche Herausforderung von KI
Diese Woche ging es um ein Paradox: Alle reden über KI, aber die wenigsten verstehen, worum es geht. Mir geht es nicht um Technologie, es geht um Menschen.
Skills are Not the Destination.
Skills-based talent strategies enable agility, but without aligning to value streams, they optimise activities instead of outcomes. Skills are ingredients, value streams are the recipe.
Is AI Taking over the “Bullshit Jobs?”
AI is eliminating the "bullshit jobs" Graeber described—flunkies, duct tapers, box tickers—exposing how bureaucracy was always a workaround for ineffective leadership, not a necessity.
Why 95% of AI Initiatives Are Struggling
95% of AI initiatives fail because companies layer cutting-edge technology onto structures designed for stability, not adaptability—success demands organizational redesign, not software installation.
Are You Still Staffing Yesterday's Silos?
Big Tech is flattening hierarchies, but the real shift is toward super-generalists, hybrid roles spanning multiple functions with AI as the glue.
Warum Organisationsstrukturen der wahre Flaschenhals sind
Unternehmen scheitern in der KI-Transformation nicht an Technologie, sondern an veralteten Strukturen: fragmentierte Kundenverantwortung lässt 2,3-faches Wachstum ungenutzt, während 57% sich KI-bereit fühlen, aber nur 8,6% es tatsächlich sind. Aufräumen vor Automatisierung ist Pflicht.
Why Great Leaders Prune
It’s easy for companies to become like overgrown gardens where resources drain into zombie initiatives no one dares cut. AI-powered feedback loops provide unbiased, real-time clarity on what to prune and where to invest.