Skill erosion or skill expansion? The real future of leadership in the AI era
As this series comes to a close, we arrive at the deepest fear many senior leaders still carry into the AI conversation: the fear of losing their edge. It is not really a fear about software. It is a fear about erosion. If AI becomes part of everyday work, will...
The danger of autopilot: why human judgment still matters in an AI workflow
One of the biggest risks with Artificial Intelligence is not that it exists. It is that people start treating it as though it no longer needs supervision. That mindset is not unique to AI. It appears in ordinary business processes all the time. A team builds a...
Stop tool-hopping: why workflow matters more than the model
Many organisations have slipped into a peculiar form of AI paralysis. They are active enough to feel modern, but not disciplined enough to create value. One week the team is testing ChatGPT. The next, it is Claude. Then Gemini. Then a niche specialist tool that...
Prompting is not technical — it is management
Prompting is often misunderstood as a technical skill, which leaves many capable, high-achieving professionals sitting on the sidelines of the AI shift because they believe they are “not technical enough” to take part. They hear phrases like prompt engineering and...
Beyond summaries: where AI creates real value for senior leaders
A great many businesses are using an extraordinarily powerful technology for very small jobs. They summarise meeting notes. They tidy emails. They rewrite a paragraph. They ask AI to produce a slightly cleaner version of what was already on the page. None of that is...