Category: Articles
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When Roles Change with AI
What happens to our roles when AI changes how work gets done? I think many of our roles and titles will be impacted by AI. Not necessarily because the work disappears, but because the way the work gets done will change. Take the Scrum Master role as an example. I have personally been uncomfortable with…
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Real Work is Before Planning
One thing I am reminded of after every planning cycle is how much work happens before the planning event itself. When people look at a successful planning event, they often see the agenda, discussions, and final commitments. What is less visible is the preparation that made those conversations possible. Planning is rarely successful because of…
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The Hidden Cost of Misalignment
One thing I have noticed over the years is that the cost of misalignment rarely arrives as a dramatic failure. More often, it accumulates through small moments of friction that seem insignificant on their own. It shows up in small ways. A conversation that needs to happen twice. A decision that remains unclear. A dependency…
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Away from Work for 3 days
I spent three weeks in India on vacation. When I returned to work, something surprised me. I’ve been away from work before. I’ve come back to overflowing inboxes, new priorities, and projects that had moved forward without me. This time felt different. It wasn’t the volume of work that caught my attention. It felt as…
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Meaningful Workday
Sometimes I wonder whether I am making progress or simply becoming better at being busy. Every Thursday I will post something. The image will drive the post and it will be my Throwback Thursday moment. Sometimes the image will have some connections sometimes it wont have. I know this is not Facebook… it is LinkedIn..…
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The Human Advantage of AI
The more I try to understand the progress of AI, the more I find myself thinking less about what it can do and more about what it asks of us. As we start using it to analyze information, write, create, summarize, reason through problems, and automate work, where does our human element stand ? Yes…
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Loneliness is not always Alone
There comes a point in life when you feel alone and realize it is not because you are physically alone. It is because you have become disconnected from yourself. No one can do that work for us. People can support us, but the journey of finding ourselves is one we must take alone. Some of…
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Predictability and Clarity
Clarity on what a team can realistically take on. Clarity on dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs. All of these are critical to a team’s success. When teams lack clarity, everything starts to feel urgent. Work keeps getting added. Priorities keep shifting. People overcommit because no one wants to say no. Eventually stress becomes the new operating…
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Why can’t we be Good?
I was introduced to Jacob Needleman‘s work in 2012. Pretty much the same time I was entangling myself with Jiddu Krishnamoorthi inorder to be free 😄 Through Jacob Needleman‘s work, I was introduced to Gurdjieff and his works. And even today I go back to all of them from time to time in my life.…
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The blame games we get sucked into
I think many workplaces have the same reflex when something goes wrong. A deadline slips, a production issue appears, a customer complains or a team misses expectations. The immediate reaction is often to find who made the mistake. But many times the real problem is not the person. It is the system producing the behavior.…
