Your Slack didn't used to feel like this. There was a time when a message arriving in a channel meant something had happened that someone thought you should know. Now it means Billy from sales has had …
What AI Didn’t Replace in Product Management
"The skills I cultivated for 15 years are now available for free." David Pereira wrote that this week, and it landed harder than most PM hot takes do. Not because it's provocative. Because it's …
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The Meeting That Can’t Be Automated
I spent six weeks building a presentation about AI. I talk about summarising online classes, creating tasks in real time for educators, algorithms that tell a consultant whether a student is likely to …
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Gall’s Law: Why Your Transformation Programme Will Fail
John Gall was a paediatrician. Not an obvious source of management wisdom. But in 1975 he wrote something about complex systems that should be required reading for every executive who has ever …
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Brooks’ Law: Why Hiring Won’t Fix Your Delivery Problem
In 1975, Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month. Fifty years later, it remains the most consistently ignored book in software engineering. Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late …
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Goodhart’s Law: Why Your Metrics Are Lying to You
Charles Goodhart was a British economist. In 1975, he observed something about monetary policy that turned out to apply to almost everything in management. Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure …
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