Workload is a design flaw
Anyone who talks about workload in organizations usually gets the same reflexes back. Capacity needs to be added. Better planning is needed. Smarter collaboration is needed. Or a welfare program, task force or additional consultation structure is put in place to relieve the pressure. Understandable. But mostly wrong. Structurally high workloads are rarely primarily a […]
The execution gap: Ambition is rarely the problem
The organization wants more than the existing system can handle. The biggest gap in organizations is not between strategy and operations. It is between ambition and execution. Boardrooms rarely lack plans. Growth ambitions, transformations, digitalization, AI, new propositions and higher customer promises: the strategic agenda is usually well filled. On paper, it’s often right. In […]
AI in the boardroom: From ‘we have to do something with it’ to a sharp AI vision
Why AI should be more than expensive lubricant for an old system. In many boardrooms, AI is talked about in terms of optimization: faster processing, fewer errors, greater efficiency. That is understandable and at the same time exactly where it goes wrong.The real power of AI is not in fine-tuning the existing.AI only becomes strategically […]
AI in the boardroom: no improvement without vision
How bold leadership with AI makes the difference between yet another project and a real leap in performance AI is now on virtually every boardroom agenda.Pilots have been launched, task forces set up, innovation hubs opened. Consultants present opportunities, and vendors show impressive demos. In presentations and reports, the organization seems to be in full […]
High-Performance Execution: from control to clock speed
How leaders achieve predictable performance in a world of constant change Many organizations are busy changing, improving and accelerating. Hard work is being done, but progress feels stagnant. Decisions take too long, priorities shift, and the pace of real improvement lags. The reflex is often predictable: more control. More dashboards, consultations and planning rounds are […]
From Office garbage to exponential learning
The true revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) lies not in the technology itself, but in how organizations learn and innovate with it. Recently, the Dutch Financial Daily warned in an article about “office garbage”: mediocre AI output that actually reduces productivity. I would like to nuance that analysis and argue that the problem is not […]
From working harder to working brighter
We are busier than ever. Teams are working overtime, reporting more, meeting longer. Everyone works hard, but the results don’t grow with them. Indeed, despite all efforts, productivity is declining. This is no accident. It is the result of a deeper pattern: we confuse hard work with effective work. The new reality Doing more seems […]
The paradox of execution power: more results by doing less
The FD recently wrote, based on research from the American univesity MIT: “AI runs aground on humans.” It is not technology, but how we learn and change that determines success. This is true for AI, but equally true for strategy execution and organizational development. This is about execution power: success comes not from more programs, […]
Output versus outcome: the pitfall of linear leadership
Anyone who has ever set out with a map knows, the map is not the landscape. On paper, the route seems clear and manageable, but once outside, the path turns out to be muddy, there are fallen trees and an unexpected intersection comes your way. This is exactly how it goes in organizations. Leaders often […]
Decision-making, focus and trust: your organization’s clock speed
In technologie kennen we de term kloksnelheid: de frequentie waarmee een processor instructies kan uitvoeren. Hoe hoger de kloksnelheid, hoe sneller en vloeiender het systeem functioneert. Voor organisaties geldt hetzelfde principe. De kloksnelheid wordt bepaald door de manier waarop besluiten worden genomen, hoe scherp de focus is en hoeveel vertrouwen er in de organisatie aanwezig […]
