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Thoughts on leadership, strategy, transformation, and navigating a world with AI.
Familiar ground and deep water: reflections from my MBA journey
What has become clearer to me through these modules is that the value of the MBA is not just in confirming what I already know, or in collecting new frameworks. It lies in the alternation between the known and the unknown: between modules where experience helps, and modules where I have to build understanding from first principles.
What I took away from MIT’s Deploying AI for Strategic Impact program
The real question is where it creates meaningful business value, under what conditions, and with what trade-offs. That is where this course helped me most. It gave me a much sharper lens for separating signal from noise.
AI is changing the strategic layers of SaaS
One of the more important strategic questions facing SaaS leadership teams right now, is not just how AI changes the product, but how it changes the layers of value around the product and, with them, the future economics of the business.
A new logic for digital product development
A more direct path from intention to a working solution. A sense that the digital no longer has to be translated through a series of technical intermediaries before it can become reality.
Which AI personality makes you most productive?
An MIT study suggests that personality matching between humans and AI can influence the quality of collaboration. If that holds, AI becomes not just a tool, but something leaders need to factor into team design and composition.
Is AI quietly bringing Agile back?
When I look at the companies that seem to be learning fastest with AI, I do not see a waterfall mindset winning. I see many of the underlying principles that made Agile valuable in the first place.
Reflections on AI: Good decisions still depend on context
I’m currently studying Deploying AI for Strategic Impact at MIT, and one of the modules has made me reflect on something that feels very familiar. AI may improve access to answers, but it does not remove an old leadership challenge: making good deci...
Takeaways from 15 inspiring conversations with female leaders
What stands out most to me is not just a story about women who have found their way into executive roles, leadership positions, and boardrooms. It is a story about leaders who are expanding our understanding of what leadership can be. And perhaps also what it should be.
Why IT systems fail when they ignore human behavior
Many large IT initiatives fail for a remarkably simple reason: they do not fit how people actually behave. Over the years, I have seen ambitious systems with strong business cases, solid architecture, and executive backing quietly die after launch....
Why AI strategy is ultimately a leadership problem
Before generative AI entered the mainstream, I led transformations across several insurance companies where automation of the claims process was a central element. What became clear early on was not a limitation of technology, but a leadership realit...