Jesse JacobyWhen AI makes output cheap, the scarce skill moves to the edges of the work: framing the right problem and pressure-testing the answer. Here is what the judgment premium is and where organizations should be building it deliberately.
When AI makes output cheap, the scarce skill moves to the edges of the work: framing the right problem and pressure-testing the answer. Here is what the judgment premium is and where organizations should be building it deliberately.
There is a conversation that happens in almost every company, and it goes something like this. Someone is very good at their job. They ship clean work, they are dependable, other people like working with them. A management position opens up. The obvious move is to give it to them, because they have earned it […]
Restructuring savings are immediate, quantified, and attributable. The costs are delayed, diffuse, and land on someone else's P&L. Here is what leaves the building, why the work never disappears, and why the recovery phase decides whether the cut worked.
Two directors in the same function at a client of mine, same leader, same AI tools, described the same eighteen months in language so different you would not believe they worked at the same company. The first told me AI had been the most energizing development of her career. She was doing analysis she never […]
In a change, leaders chase the loud resisters and miss the people who go quiet, who are often the strongest performers already rehearsing their exit. Here is why silence is the real leading indicator and how to build an early-warning system that catches it.
The best analyst on a team I advised was promoted to lead it, and within six months she was drowning. Not because she had gotten worse at the work. She had gotten better. She was still the fastest, most accurate, most reliable person in the room. That was the problem. She kept doing the work […]
A consumer goods company launched what leadership called the most ambitious operational transformation in the company’s history. New ERP system. Restructured supply chain. Redesigned order management process. Twelve months of intensive internal change work with executive sponsorship, change champions, training programs, and weekly progress dashboards. Eighteen months in, they hit their internal milestones. The system […]
Most organizations are good at managing resistance to a single change and poor at building the capacity to absorb disruption as a constant. Here’s how to shift from resistance management to organizational resilience as a standing competency.
