1️⃣ Leadership moves into workflow Harvard Business Impact’s 2026 study says 50% of organizations are expanding AI-based talent management and internal mobility; 53% expect leaders to use more AI in strategic decisions.
💡 Why it matters Leadership development has to move closer to real decisions, not sit in a calendar of courses.
☕ Coffee talk Who is checking whether leaders use AI to decide better, or just to decide faster?
2️⃣ Process is now a design choice Gusto’s CTO says a five-person team built a new product line in 10 weeks with Claude Code, a permanent Zoom room and almost no standard process: no Jira, Figma, specs or standups.
💡 Why it matters When AI absorbs more building work, coordination overhead becomes a management variable, not a law of nature.
☕ Coffee talk Which meetings survive once a PR can be the proposal?
3️⃣ PLG sales needs clean measurement First Round’s Supabase episode says the company turned product-led signals into a sales motion paid only on incremental uplift over a control group.
💡 Why it matters Sales can help self-serve growth, but only if leaders measure lift instead of letting reps harvest demand the product already created.
☕ Coffee talk How many PLG teams know what sales added, instead of what sales touched?