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The Pre-Mortem, Accelerated: Using AI to Kill Your Plan Before It Kills You
Most executives know the pre-mortem. Very few use it. The concept, developed by psychologist Gary Klein and popularized in organizational strategy circles by Daniel Kahneman, is disarmingly simple. Before committing to a major decision, you imagine it is twelve months in the future and the initiative has failed catastrophically. You then work backward to explain what went wrong. The exercise forces a team to surface its private doubts, challenge its shared assumptions, and co
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Are You Operating in the Wrong Era of AI?
January 2026 marked another structural inflection point in the AI revolution: the emergence of autonomous agentic AI, now rapidly reconfiguring how solopreneurs and enterprises adopt and deploy AI systems. Like a lobster molting its shell, the technology has undergone another fundamental transformation. And looking back through this lens, three distinct, evidence-supported eras come into focus, each with its own defining vibe, its own core capabilities, and its own strategic
Mar 106 min read
Your 6-Week Workout Plan for Claude
One of the most frequent requests I get from executives and business owners sounds like this: "Severin, just give me an exercise plan. A workout plan. Something I can follow day by day to actually get good at this AI thing." I love that framing. Because most people miss this: getting value from AI isn't about one magical prompt. It's about building a practice in the same way you'd build physical fitness. Nobody walks into a gym on Day 1 and deadlifts 400 pounds. You follow a
Mar 14 min read
How to Remain Irreplaceable in the Age of AI
AI is turning coaching from a novelty into a utility. For Chairs and executive coaches, the market is bifurcating: the commodity vs. the craft. To stay relevant, we must hand over the routine tasks to the algorithms and double down on the distinctly human "craft" that no machine can replicate. What AI is Absorbing AI has already reached a level of competency that threatens the traditional "junior coach" or the facilitator who relies solely on structured processes. These eleme
Feb 235 min read
I Let an AI Clean My Inbox, and I Finally Have “Digital Silence”
We all know the "inbox dread." You open your email and are immediately hit with a barrage of political pleas, newsletters you don't remember joining, and "urgent" discounts for things you don’t need. It’s a massive cognitive tax before your workday even begins. I recently experimented with a tool called Claude Cowork (Anthropic’s desktop assistant) to see if it could handle the one task we all hate: the great subscription purge. The Experiment Instead of spending weeks manual
Feb 22 min read
Your AI Probably Failed. Here's Why That's Good News.
If you've championed an enterprise AI initiative that went sideways, you're in good company. You saw the promise, secured the budget, and picked a "best-in-class" vendor. The pilot looked great. Then you tried to scale. Workflows sputtered. Performance was throttled to the speed of a "dot matrix printer" during peak demand. The API went down during a critical window. The quality of the model seemed to degrade over time. The promised ROI never materialized, leaving you with bu
Jan 294 min read
18 Real-Time Thoughts from AI's Architects of Change
The leaders shaping the AI revolution are often viewed as possessing a kind of crystal ball. Yet in practice, they are learning by doing: testing assumptions, making missteps, and adapting in real time alongside the broader global business community. Meaningful insight rarely emerges in isolation. It is forged by observing those in the arena, wrestling with the same structural transformations now confronting every sector. The most valuable moment to learn from these leaders i
Jan 232 min read
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