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M, a former colleague, a client and a friend visited me a few weeks back. He is one of the best people I have worked with. We worked with him in his role at a client over a number of projects. He has since gone to a global firm where he has worked on a number of...
I wrote about losing everything.Nothing hurts more than losing people you are close to. During the challenges I've faced over the past few years, some of the loss of those people happened due to toxic chat. I know, because I was told about it or given the clues. When...
After experiencing a profound moment of realization, the author delves deeply into the potential of AI, particularly agentic workflows, to drastically enhance productivity and change business practices. Adopting AI for iterative inference tasks and incorporating it into workflows, as visualized by visionaries like Andrew Ng, promises to redefine how tasks are executed. The evolving landscape includes agent-driven ecosystems, likely impacting software development and various industries, and foreshadows significant shifts in employment and monetization strategies. With the imminent release of GPT-5, which is anticipated to further integrate agents into workflows, the author foresees an AI-driven transformation that extends across multiple domains, potentially leading to a reimagined economy centered around AI capabilities.
Headline summary:1. Transcription to phone and then AI improvement helps me get work done on the move. 2. Speech-to-speech interaction with ChatGPT on my phone makes for an interactive learning process. Transcription as a Life HackTranscription is essential for us due...
MBB (McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group – BCG – and Bain) have a problem with their business models.
Out of loyalty to some friends, I don’t comment much on MBB and I also think it is poor form to talk down your competitors. So I have written down much more critical views of some of their missteps / flaws and filed them away.
“When McKinsey Comes to Town” does a thorough job of cataloging some of McKinsey’s less celebrated history and there are other books such as “Deep Collusion” detailing some of Bain and BCG’s past mistakes too. I’ll leave those books to tell those stories and leave my more scathing criticisms unpublished.
This post is regarding a more fundamental issue that confronts not just MBB but other service based firms – including Goldman Sachs in its past partnership form.
A quote we posted in 2018 on our Global Advisors feed was reposted the other day.
As sometimes happens, this one hit me as I have been ruminating about some team members who have recently moved on and what feels like their lack of appreciation for the enormous effort and care that was given to their development and membership of our team.
“As a leader, you need to care deeply, deeply about your people while not worrying or really even caring about what they think about you. Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.” – Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO
I am a firm believer in servant leadership – and have given everything I could to team members based on the firm belief that ultimately the results provide the reward. When things don’t work out, people move on, etc, it can be tough when they are unaware of the agonising that went into decisions regarding their support, development promotion, etc.
I gather office ideas – many have influenced the design of our Global Advisors offices.