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 choosing from the same short list of AI engines. The winners are the ones who never outsource the playbook. I make the case through a lesson learned the hard way on a dirt court in Greece, a corporate cautionary tale, and an unlikely example of doing it right in the modern NASCAR garage. In the era of AI, the hard part is stewarding the technology you buy.