1️⃣ Test readiness before you announce the strategy HBR’s advice is simple: assess whether the team is ready before rolling out a new strategy. A launch date is not evidence that the organization can execute it.
💡 Why it matters Make readiness explicit: ownership, capability, capacity and the trade-offs people must accept. Fix the gaps before the town hall, not after the first missed milestone.
☕ Coffee talk Which part of your new strategy depends on a team that is already overloaded?
2️⃣ Keep judgment upstream of the AI answer HBR warns that AI can weaken leaders’ judgment. The risk starts when a polished answer replaces the work of framing the question and testing the assumptions.
💡 Why it matters Use AI to widen options and challenge a view. Keep the decision criteria, dissent and final call with named people who can explain what they rejected and why.
☕ Coffee talk Who in the room can still say the model’s neat answer is wrong?
3️⃣ Give each agent a narrow job Claire Vo’s week with Grok Bot points to a practical design choice: separate agents for product, commitments, invoices and case studies, each connected to the accounts it needs.
💡 Why it matters One general assistant creates vague ownership and messy permissions. A small roster of role-based agents makes scope, access and performance easier to inspect.
☕ Coffee talk Would you hire one person to chase invoices, manage product and monitor every inbox?