The Experience Maker's Question
You are always making an experience for your team. The question is whether you're doing it on purpose.
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The Distinction Almost Nobody Is Teaching
Are you using AI to go faster or to think better?
So you have been using GenAI for a while now. A year. Two years. Three years.
You run everything through it. Status reports, meeting prep, email drafts, risk summaries. You have excelled at prompting. Your outputs are consistent. Your
Two Ways Project Managers See AI — And Why It Matters
The word “artificial intelligence” contains a hidden diagnostic. Which word do you land on first?
Do you emphasize the ARTIFICIAL of Artificial Intelligence?
Or do you emphasize the INTELLIGENCE of Artificial Intelligence?
Pay attention to how your colleagues talk about AI.
Some say “it doesn’t really understand anything — it’
The AI Mode Nobody Uses — and Why It's the Most Valuable One
Imagine A PM working on preparing a major program review.
She used AI extensively — pulled together the project narrative, drafted the exec summary, structured the slide deck. The output was polished. She was confident going in.
And imagine, the review didn't go well.
The exec sponsor challenged the
If the Lights Go Out, Your AI Goes With Them
What If the Lights Went Out?
There's a specific kind of film that surfaces every few years about civilization without electricity. American Blackout (2013) followed ordinary people through a national power grid collapse. E.M.P.: 333 Days (2018) dramatized what a full electromagnetic pulse event would mean
Your brain isn't meant to remember everything
The best PMs don't try to hold it all in their heads. They build systems to think for them.
Here's what your Tuesday looked like:
You opened your laptop at 8 AM. By 8:15, you had 14 browser tabs open, 6 Slack channels blinking, 3
Why I Used the Seven Deadly Sins to Build an AI Ethics Tool for Project Managers
There is no shortage of AI ethics guidance. Frameworks, principles, policy documents, training modules — the field is producing them at pace.
And yet, when I looked at what was available for project managers specifically, I kept finding the same problem: the guidance was abstract, issue-driven, and written for organisations
My AI Ethics Charter
I used GenAI to help me draft my own AI Ethics charter. This charter reflects my own commitments to GenAI use.
Are you spending your energy in the right places?
Most PMs waste time on things that don't matter. Here's how to fix it.
Let me ask you something:
Where did your energy go this week?
Status reports? Email firefighting? Chasing people for updates? Sitting in meetings that could've been a Slack message or
The 10 Principles of Intentional Intelligence
As I spent time thinking of ways to present ways of working with Generative AI, I had a few convictions.
First and foremost, I still wanted to move project managers out of bureaucracy into leadership.
And in the world of GenAI, that is still my goal.
GenAI can help you