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#025 - Efficient today. Leaderless in 2030.

I keep having the same conversation. Different city. Different industry. Different company size. But the same conversation. An executive tells me about their AI transformation. How they automated the entry-level work. Cut the graduate intake. Flattened two management layers. Reduced headcount by ...

Jun 13, 2026 executive decision-making future of ai leadership psychology

#024 - You're In Love With the Idea of AI.

I dated a woman who fell in love with a man I'd never met. He had my name. My voice. My address. But when she described him to her friends, I didn't recognize him. The accomplishments rearranged. The future she'd already written for us. A version of me she'd carefully composed. She wasn't lying. ...

May 17, 2026 ai strategy executive decision-making leadership psychology

#023 - I Owe You an Update. The Timeline Changed.

I have my routines that make me strong. Or stronger. Exercising every day. Taking a walk in my forest. Reading. Meditating. Learning. They are not impressive. They are not optimized. They are not hacks. They are the small, repeatable things that hold a person together when the world keeps changin...

Apr 25, 2026 ai strategy future of ai leadership psychology

#021 - The One-Second Gap That Separates Leaders from Their Ego.

Most leadership (and personal) failures do not begin with strategy. They begin in a fraction of a second. Not in the boardroom. Not during the quarterly review. Not in the strategy offsite with sticky notes and expensive consultants. They begin in the instant after someone challenges your idea. Q...

Apr 06, 2026 change management executive decision-making leadership psychology

#019 - The Art of Subtraction.

We all know the saying: "Sometimes less is more." It resonates deeply with me, but it took me years to understand why. I have a default setting: over-responsibility, especially with loved ones. I tend to think about their needs before they do. I plan for them. I try to predict what they want, oft...

Jan 11, 2026 ai strategy leadership psychology prioritization & focus

#018 - You Are Not Alone. In Business, Too.

Most of us run our businesses in a state of semi-consciousness, reacting to the loudest fire instead of following a clear internal compass. But the most successful leaders I know operate differently. They move through the world with their eyes wide open, fully aware of their own patterns, trigger...

Dec 31, 2025 change management executive decision-making leadership psychology

#016 - You cannot outsource your life.

When I was building my home, I hired the best architect in the city. The design was stunning, and they promised to take total ownership to make that vision a reality. I believed them, so I walked away to focus on my business. When I came back 4 months later, the project was a disaster. I had outs...

Dec 14, 2025 ai governance executive decision-making leadership psychology

#015 - The "Black Box" of Love.

This week has been a rollercoaster. By day, I was involved in a multi-million dollar project negotiation, analyzing risk profiles and demanding logical clarity from every clause. By night, I was completely surrendering logic to a feeling I haven't felt in years. I have been constantly switching b...

Dec 07, 2025 executive decision-making human-ai collaboration leadership psychology

#014 - A Letter to My Pre-AI Self.

You are sitting in that glass-walled office in Warsaw, probably on your third coffee, checking your phone under the table during a board meeting. You are feeling the weight of a failed project—that crater that is still smoking behind you. You are tired. You are defensive. You are trying to outrun...

Nov 30, 2025 future of ai human-ai collaboration leadership psychology

#013 - Panic Looks Like Productivity.

Your executive team is drowning. Not because they lack intelligence. Not because they lack effort. They are drowning because they mistake motion for progress. I see it every week. Senior leaders are rushing from meeting to meeting. They launch new initiatives before finishing old ones. They pivot...

Nov 23, 2025 executive decision-making leadership psychology prioritization & focus

#012 - Attention Span: 8 Seconds. Bullshit Job: 8 Hours.

A "bullshit job" isn't a shit job. A shit job is necessary. A garbage collector or a hospital cleaner does vital, but challenging work. A "bullshit job," as defined by the late anthropologist David Graeber, is a role that the person doing it secretly believes is pointless. If the job were to disa...

Nov 15, 2025 future of ai leadership psychology prioritization & focus

#010 - I Lost €50 Million and the Woman I Loved. I Found Who I Am.

The most important things I know, I learned by losing. Not by winning. Not by building. Not by achieving. By losing. Twice I've been crushed by loss. Once by love. Once by money. Both taught me the same lesson. The Woman I couldn't breathe around her. Not because of desire—though there was plen...

Nov 01, 2025 case study executive decision-making leadership psychology

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