~ the archive · 59 episodes & counting

Every episode, sharpened for leaders.

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Hire AI Like a Contractor
The Shift 8 min read

Hire AI Like a Contractor

You bought a contractor and never assigned a project manager. The question was never which AI to buy. It was who routes the work into it and who accepts it out.

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The Wish on Your Shelf Just Got Cheap to Build
Translated Strategy 9 min read

The Wish on Your Shelf Just Got Cheap to Build

Monday Move Run the Seven Questions On One Page.

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Your AI Employee Handbook Is Not a Policy
The Shift 8 min read

Your AI Employee Handbook Is Not a Policy

Monday Move Run the One Station Job Spec.

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Separating the Fear From the Function
Field Notes 8 min read

Separating the Fear From the Function

Monday Move Before the next AI rollout meeting with a team, sit with one team member. Ask three questions. Write the answers on one page.

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Attention Is Out, Intention Is In
The Shift 8 min read

Attention Is Out, Intention Is In

Monday Move Run the Last Five Wins Audit.

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Stop Asking What AI Can Do
The Shift 8 min read

Stop Asking What AI Can Do

Monday Move Write down three workflows in your business that are working right now and could be twice as good.

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Clarity as Your Competitive Edge
The Shift 8 min read

Clarity as Your Competitive Edge

Monday Move Write the ugly version of your lens on one page. Four sentences. Do not edit it into copy yet.

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The Room Wanted Diagnosis
The Shift 7 min read

The Room Wanted Diagnosis

The reason you are stuck is not that the AI space is confusing. The AI space is confusing. That is not the reason you are stuck.

The Station Plan

Monday Move Pick one AI question that has been sitting in your business for more than sixty days. Not the whole list.

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The Room Can Participate, But It Cannot Drive
The Shift 8 min read

The Room Can Participate, But It Cannot Drive

The next AI meeting you call, put the index card at the top. The decision, the DRI, the three inputs. Then run the room to those three inputs and hold the decision yourself.

The Four D's (The Chef's Stance)

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The Engine Got Smarter. Your Setup Didn't. Translated Strategy 7 min read Phantom Polish Field Notes 7 min read Your AI Workshop Is Not a Keynote Field Notes 8 min read Keeping Up Is Not the Same as Getting Better Borrowed Lenses 8 min read Your Agent Dashboard Is Green. The Work Still Broke. Translated Strategy 6 min read Paid Tools Are Not a Governance Policy Field Notes 9 min read Small Bets The Shift 9 min read Build the Room Before You Ask the AI Translated Strategy 8 min read You're Testing on the Wrong People The Shift 8 min read The Tells Field Notes 9 min read Stop Hiring the Prompt Translated Strategy 8 min read Your Prototype Graveyard Is Already Running the Business Translated Strategy 8 min read Today vs. Ten Years The Shift 9 min read Pick the Decision. Latency Answers Itself. Field Notes 9 min read Five Questions for the Blind-Spot Prompt Ritual Field Notes 9 min read Three Handoffs at Ninety Is Seventy-Three The Shift 9 min read Mount Stupid The Shift 8 min read The Dimmer, Not the Switch. Field Notes 8 min read The Team Didn't Need Perfect Field Notes 8 min read The Prep Call The Shift 9 min read The Wrong Room Translated Strategy 8 min read The Context You Don't Own Translated Strategy 8 min read The No-List The Shift 8 min read Velocity Debt The Shift 8 min read 45 Minutes on Quote One Field Notes 9 min read Hot Cross Buns The Shift 8 min read Mike's Head Is Your Wiki. Translated Strategy 8 min read The Dependency Property Translated Strategy 8 min read The Recursive Pattern: Why Fixing AI Means Fixing How You Delegate The Shift 8 min read Before You Cancel: The Audit Field Notes 7 min read From Pyramid to Station Plan: The Structural Shift Nobody's Talking About The Shift 7 min read The First Try Is Rarely the Last Try Translated Strategy 7 min read Ghost Numbers Borrowed Lenses 8 min read The Laziness Problem The Shift 7 min read The Specification Bottleneck Translated Strategy 10 min read The Pass Translated Strategy 9 min read The Chef Translated Strategy 8 min read The Lonely Examples Problem Translated Strategy 6 min read The Prompt Hoarder Translated Strategy 7 min read Speed Beats Polish The Shift 5 min read The Dashboard Delusion Field Notes 7 min read The Silent Critic Field Notes 6 min read The Context Vacuum Translated Strategy 7 min read The Chat Refugee Translated Strategy 5 min read It's Not Excel Translated Strategy 5 min read The Open Door Problem Translated Strategy 6 min read The Process Cage Translated Strategy 6 min read The Announcement Trap Translated Strategy 8 min read Your Sent Folder Is the Training Library Translated Strategy 9 min read Stop Hiring AI. Start Building It. Translated Strategy 11 min read

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