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Hackathons: A C-Suite Perspective
A two-day hackathon looks like a gift to your team. Two days off the roadmap. Two days of building whatever they want. If you’re a CRO wondering when the feature to help close the deal will be deployed, it looks like you just lit a match on a week’s worth of productivity (because you’re also…
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Systems Over Heroes
SaaS is in a rough stretch. Companies are cutting, consolidating, fighting to keep the lights on. The Saaspocalypse is being felt at varying stages depending on the market. And when organizations are under pressure, something deeply human kicks in: they start hoping for a hero. Not necessarily a specific person. Just someone — from engineering,…
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The Month Two Reality of AI-Enabled Development
There is plenty of discussion about AI-enabled development, but very little of it deals with what actually happens inside an organization once the tools are in everyone’s hands. I’m interested in the process stuff—the “where the rubber meets the road” issues that show up in daily operations rather than demos. These aren’t hypothetical risks; they…
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Champions, Not Mandates: How to Actually Drive AI Adoption
You can’t memo or force your way to AI adoption. I’ve written before (Strategy Isn’t Strategy Unless Repeated) about why communication alone doesn’t change behavior. Adoption is a behavior change problem. You need mechanisms of change, not just announcements. Two that have worked well for me for AI adoption specifically are: hackathons and local champions.…
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Strategy Isn’t Strategy Unless Repeated
Here’s some math that makes this obvious once you see it: you spend dozens, maybe hundreds of hours developing a strategy. You think through the problems, the options, the trade-offs, the execution paths. You live with it. You sleep on it. You iterate on it. You pressure-test it with other senior execs and your leadership…
