A small selection of articles that reflect my current focus: leadership in complexity, real teamwork, and how modern product organizations can improve speed and learning by changing how work is done together.
Most of my writing is published through Crisp’s platforms.
MobAI: From Copilot to Team Pilot
AI can make individuals faster. For leaders, the bigger question is whether it helps teams build shared context, judgment, and better decisions. AI can make individuals faster.
It can also make teams more fragmented.
That is one of the risks I see in how many organizations approach AI adoption right now. One person gets a copilot. Another learns better prompts. A third builds a small automation. Someone else experiments with agents. All of that can be useful.
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Catalyst Leadership:
You Cannot Optimize the Whole System if Your Inner System Optimizes for Safety
Most leaders are not held back by a lack of competence. They are held back by an inner system that was built for a different kind of world. According to Bob Anderson and Bill Adams at Leadership Circle, their research suggests that 70-80% of leaders lead reactively. That does not mean they are bad leaders.
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Three strategies for leading in complexity
In complex environments, leadership is less about control and prediction and more about sensemaking, intent, and creating conditions where good decisions can emerge. This article outlines three practical strategies leaders can use when traditional planning breaks down.
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Mob programming with AI: inside a high-performing team’s journey
A concrete exploration of what happens when teams move from coordination-heavy work to real collaboration — and how AI can become part of the team rather than just another tool. Many recurring “productivity problems” disappear when work is truly done together.
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Leveling up leadership
Why leadership development often stalls — and what it takes to actually raise leadership capability in modern organizations. This piece connects leadership growth to how leaders engage with real work, not just roles, meetings, or frameworks.
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What Tesla and SpaceX Can Teach Us About How We Build
What Tesla and SpaceX Can Teach Us About How We Build
A review of The Musk Way by Alejandro Sahuquillo, and what I’ve learned from bringing these ideas into practice.
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