I am dealing with an interesting problem at work - one of my teams is building tools for internal use only, and somehow it got a bad rep even before anyone used it. It got me thinking -> how is that even possible? Two major things in my mind: 1. Lack of clear direction led to 80% of every feature being done, but none of them finished 2. Really poor communication by the dev team to the rest of the org about progress and outcomes. So now it is my job to turn this situation around. How would you do it?

After a few weeks full of AI content, it is time to get back to some more soft skills-related topics. I have a few to start us off:

I've been using AI agents for months, and I want to show you what actually works. We will go through 3 levels - basic automation with LLM, outsourcing meeting management to agents, to full vibe-coding prototypes. The point of the workshop is to showcase what you can do but also to get you thinking about what can be done and how you can start. After this workshop, I'm taking a break from AI content for a bit. There's more to leadership than AI. Thursday, August 13th @ 4–5 pm Vancouver time meet.google.com/cvz-seqs-mbf

My company had an All-Hands meeting today, and the leadership team had an interesting take on productivity. In 2025, it was all about AI Adoption - the badge of honour was "we are using AI", in early 2026, the badge of honour was "I use the most tokens", and today, the new badge is "I can prove I can do the work of two employees from 2025". My team grew by 3x from early 2025, but we only added one more PM. In the workshop, I will showcase how I use Claude to automate a lot of simple tasks in a repeatable way, but I do want to drive the point home -> AI is an enabler, and you need to know how to build systems. Today I connected my Hermes Agent to Buffer, so I can post on LinkedIn in a much more seamless and straightforward way. I have zero excuse not to do it. It is a simple system but one that works. And it is the same with everything else. What system are you going to build next?

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.