Playbook & Practice.
Perspectives on technology, culture, and corporate governance.
I kept having the same conversation, with clients, at conferences, over dinner, about how leaders actually get ready to lead through modernization: moving past the feature list to what a decision really costs an organization beyond the price tag, and what it takes from the people who have to run it after launch. This is where I put those conversations into something more permanent: the playbook they can execute from, and the practice of actually running it.
Buy the Engine, Own the Playbook
Everyone's buying the same AI engine. The winners are the ones who never outsource the playbook. I make the case through a corporate cautionary tale and an unlikely one from the modern NASCAR garage: in the era of AI, the technology was never the hard part. Staying in control of it is.