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AI in your company: where to start without wasting money
The wrong question The most common question business owners ask me is: “Where do I start with AI?”. The answer they don’t…
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Dependence on the owner: when the company is you
The signal nobody wants to see When the owner is reachable 24 hours a day by their own team, I already know…
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If processes are broken, AI amplifies the chaos
Why AI alone solves nothing When I walk into a company and see owners excited about AI, the first question I ask…
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Review meetings: how to leave with concrete actions
I walk into an SME and I see that they hold monthly review meetings. In reality, they are sessions where the team…
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Are you a boss or a facilitator — why the difference determines what your team produces
A client tells me how his department changed when he stopped managing like a boss and started to facilitate. Before: he had…
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When everyone wants everything now — how to set priorities without losing your mind
I’m on the phone with the owner of a manufacturing company. He tells me about his week: on Monday customer X wanted…
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Your meetings are a black hole of hours – how to tell which ones to stop
I open the calendar of an operations director at an SME of 60 people. What I see is a tetris of coloured…
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Feedback without context is just an opinion – why your criticism changes nothing
I walk into a company and the department head talks to me about their team. “They don’t listen to what I say”.…
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Why your team doesn’t tell you the truth (and how to change that)
An owner calls me and says: “I don’t understand why my team never tells me about problems. I always find out when…