Organisations Are Not Points Now that you have the 9Q Grid, you might be tempted to ask: "Where is my organisation?" You might point to Q5 and say, "We are here." Or Q2 and say, "We are here." But that's wrong. Organisations
Last week, two extraordinary moments in sports caught my attention and sparked some deep thinking about talent, potential, and what it means to build capability in our organisations. First, there was Kimi Antonelli, a 19-year-old prodigy who Mercedes has been developing since his karting days. He's now leading
As we enter the co-intelligent era, understanding where humans plan a role and where does machine intelligence play a role is critical. Over the years we have had many tools and frameworks to help us. In strategy we have the BCG matrix, Five Forces from Porter and recently the business
Not Humans OR AI. Humans WITH AI. In early days of automobiles, we called them "horseless carriages." The name revealed our thinking. We understood new technology only in terms of what it replaced. A carriage—without a horse. The frame of reference was old world. It took decades
For a long time, my biggest challenge was how do I do something? How do I create something? How do I take this idea and make it happen? In the last six to eight months, that's totally changed. I want to explore design. I use Cloud Design Map
Continuing the series for the book The Co-Intelligent Organisation. The One-Second War Lap 49 of the 2021 Russian Grand Prix. Lando Norris is four laps away from his first-ever Formula 1 victory, his McLaren dancing on the edge of adhesion as he holds off the seven-time world champion, Lewis Hamilton.
Today I launch the co-intelligent organisation book. It will be written in public, learning and looping and sensing as I go. Preface: These are the questions guiding me. They came after I wrote The Helix Moment, which was about strategy, design, and AI. I had spent twenty years in strategy
Trust. The single biggest challenge for enterprise Agent adoption. In my new book launching next week as a serial, The Co-Intelligent Organisation, a key aspect of the second part of the book, The License is the ability for organisations to build the capability and maturity to adopt and launch AI
If markdown is the co-intelligent document format, what is a co-intelligent tool? Salesforce, one of the companies that helped create the SaaS era, is now showing us what comes next. For the past two decades, SaaS software was built for humans. We were the users. We clicked the buttons, filled
Exponential growth of AI is creating a new kind of challenge. How will humans and organisations actually move forward?
The biggest change in 2025 for coders was -- launch of claude code and Opus 4.5 which brought a real agentic approach. If we have to become a co-intelligent leader the first step is to become fluent in AI. And not just a chat but a real agentic approach.
Steve Yegge launched GasTown on Jan 1 2026. Gas Town is basically how you can use claude code to create a team (mayor, polecat, crew, beads etc) to manage more claude codes and create more work. The whole idea is the idea of "orchestration" and beads as the
Every industry has physical infrastructure. Roads, power grids, internet cables. Without them, everything slows down or stops. What's less visible is the infrastructure that determines how freely people can experiment. The systems — or absence of systems — that decide whether someone can try a bold idea, fail safely, and
We are going to live in a human-agent co-intelligent future. If that is the case, what is the file that works for both? Word was for text. Excel for numbers. PPT for presentations. Markdown for agents and humans. John Gruber created markdown as a simple way to make text files
A Stanford economist just proved what we've been saying all along. Not with opinions. With math. Charles I. Jones, one of the world's leading growth economists, published a paper this month that should be required reading for every executive drowning in AI hype. The title: "
How Australia's food labelling system got frozen in 2014 — and why Rules as Code could fix it The Cornflakes Box You're standing in your kitchen at 7am, half-awake, pouring cornflakes into a bowl. On the front of the box: 4.0 stars. Four and a half
Last week, Nature published one of the most quietly consequential papers in AI history. The title was clinical: "Does AI already have human-level intelligence?" The conclusion was not: We have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved. Within 24 hours,
I went to bed at midnight with a problem. I needed to drop 10kg. I'd known it for months. But like every other time, the tracking fell apart the moment pressure hit. Client deadlines landed, the fitness app notifications got swiped away, and three weeks later I'
The capability gap isn't technical—it's organizational. And if you don't understand the difference between Assist, Augment, and Adapt, you're solving the wrong problem. The Real Challenge AI capability keeps climbing. That's not news anymore. What is news: organisational absorption
Three major AI breakthroughs launched in November Not last quarter. Not last year. In one week. November 17: Grok 4.1 became the most accurate language model ever tested—65% fewer hallucinations than its predecessor. November 20: Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image finally cracked the "AI can&
So this week has been big for the AI space, and I want to make sense of that for the strategic leader that is you. We're not going to talk about benchmarks or why this is cool. We're going to look at you as a strategic
We've been reading a lot of stories about AI adoption and its challenges. There's a new study every week. One claims it's not working, while another says it is. So, what's really happening? I think everything is both true and not true.
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When I started the Theory of the Business, the goal was to explore strategy, innovation and design. This was before my full tilt into AI. With the launch of The Helix Moment, the approach of rhythms (Lines Loops and Vibes), my work with clients from in private, public and purpose
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Design thinking and Innovation has been close to my heart for more than 15 years. When I started to write The Helix Moment, I was clear that there should be a new way to explore design for the AI Age. Design is not what happens after strategy. Design is how