Leadership
Leading teams and making the call
It took a month to build and four months to get permission. Growing teams don't move faster. They just spend more time asking for approval.
The real value of AI isn't cutting headcount. It's giving your best people the one thing they never had - time to think, explore, and scale what they already know.
Bean bags and hackathons aren't startup culture. The real difference is authority - who decides what to build, who can say no, and who's allowed to be wrong.
You announced a digital transformation. You hired a CDO. You renamed the IT team to Product. Six months later, nothing has changed except the org chart.