Notes on leading through AI.
Practical writing on leadership, trust, judgment and AI readiness, from the operators behind Z.Advisors and the book Rewired Leadership.
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What Is an Operating Model? The Seven Parts, and What AI Changes
An operating model is how a strategy becomes daily work. Here are its seven parts, what AI changes in each, how to design one, and a one-page version you can fill in this week.
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Are Performance Reviews Effective? What the Evidence Says in 2026
Performance reviews do one of their three jobs well: they produce a pay decision. The 2026 evidence says they rarely improve the work and measure it poorly, and it shows what to keep and what to move.
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What Is a Talent Strategy? How to Build One When AI Is Changing the Roles
A talent strategy is the short set of choices about which work people do and where each capability comes from. In 2026 it has to start with what AI changes in each role, or it plans for jobs that are already leaving.
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Coaching vs Mentoring: The Difference, and Which One a Leader Needs Now
Coaching draws on your experience. Mentoring draws on someone else's. The AI shift is the first leadership transition where nobody's experience covers the job, and that changes which one you need.
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What Is the Future of AI in HR? Five Shifts Already Underway, and What the CHRO Does About Them
AI is taking HR's transactional work, recruiting first. What comes next is a function that designs how people and agents work together, if HR leads the redesign instead of receiving it.
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What Is Performance Management? What to Measure When AI Does Part of the Job
Performance management is the year-round cycle that turns expectations into better work. The hard question in 2026 is what the cycle should measure once an agent does the execution.
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What Is Adaptive Leadership? Six Practices for When AI Changes the Work
Most stalled change is an adaptive problem treated as a technical one. Here is the discipline for the other kind, and why AI has made it the everyday kind.
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How to Write Standard Operating Procedures People and AI Can Follow
Most procedures describe the work as a manager imagines it. This is how to capture the work as it is really done, judgment calls included.
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How to Do Succession Planning for the Roles You Will Actually Need
Most succession plans name a successor for a job that is already changing shape. This is how to plan for the role you will actually need.
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AI vs Human Decision Making: Who Should Make Which Call
AI already beats people at some decisions, and putting a person in the loop does not always help. The real work is deciding who decides what.
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How to Build Trust in Leadership: Make It a System, Not a Speech
Most advice treats trust as a personal virtue. It only holds when it is built into how decisions, mistakes and bad news are handled.