It is hard to keep up with the AI sector's growth. It keeps moving, inventing and growing, even while we take the summer break. The AI Agents workshop is here to ensure that we, as managers and leaders don't fall behind. There are two groups forming here -> those who know how to adopt AI tools in their day-to-day and those who don't. Yesterday I talked to a friend who works for a start-up which focuses on AI enabled tooks for the finance sector, they just replaced two PMs who didn't know how to use AI tools with two PM/PdMs who did. The scary part here was they didn't invest in training - that was too slow, they just replaced them with new talent with desirable knowledge. The voting for workshop date didn't get much traction, but I am leaning towards the 13th at 4 PM PT. Come and join me to learn how I take advantage of those tools, and share the use cases that you have in mind or already implemented.

Last week I was writing about a volunteer-driven event organized by a committee, without a single leader to take charge. Not the best experience if I am honest, but I have to say that in the end the event worked out quite well. At the end of the day, it is a car display and not an open-heart surgery, there are no super harsh consequences if anything goes wrong. Which led me to ask myself a question - why was I so frustrated about it? I think it's because I have quite high standards for myself and the work I deliver. And I project that on everything that I do. But was this so necessary here? I don’t know. Where does your perfectionism stand in the way of just getting things done?

Please let me know which date works best for you. As stated before, this workshop will be about Agentic AI setup for managers, it will explain how I make AI run some of my meetings, how I vibe code custom reporting dashboards and how I use the agent to ask for updates.

I volunteer for a car club and this year we couldn't find someone to take charge of one of our biggest events. So the executive team formed a committee instead. The result → things barely move, mostly pushed by 3 people while everyone else is just there. The problem with everyone owning everything is that no one owns anything in full, so things are getting done, just not well. If you look at armies, they have a strict chain of command, because it works, even under pressure. Leadership by committee does not. The tricky part is that everyone here is a volunteer. I can't expect people to do what they don't want to do. So I'm stuck between knowing what works and not being able to enforce it. Why would I not volunteer myself? It is a time commitment I wasn't able to make this year. Can any of you recommend an approach to working with volunteers?

I have a CI/CD DevOps team that got pulled into other priorities for a while. Now the original plan doesn't fit anymore and they're struggling to refocus. So I stepped in to help. The "re-doing" the plan is actually not that hard. The harder part is the new vision. How do you give a team a direction they can believe in when they've just been through a rough stretch? What I decided to do was to break the vision into smaller pieces so that they can have a win per week. If the pieces are right, the bigger picture comes together on its own. Have you ever had to rebuild direction for a team that lost its way? What worked and what didn't?