Everyone a CEO
Artificial Intelligence is lowering the barriers to leadership and execution. Starting and scaling an initiative once required significant capital, staff, and infrastructure. Today, a single person with a set of AI models and tools can operate like a small company. The essential resources of production—knowledge, labour, and coordination—are becoming commodities, available to anyone with the drive to use them.
This series explores how leaders can navigate this new landscape. It follows a deliberate path: we start with the collapse of execution costs, then layer in sensemaking, governance, and autonomous doctrine. Each post is designed to stand alone, but together they form a playbook for building AI-native organisations. We'll introduce the core frameworks here and then return to them in later articles as we add more nuance.
A quick guide to key concepts
- The Cynefin framework is a sense-making tool that helps leaders understand the kind of situation they are in, so they can make better decisions. It identifies five different domains—Clear, Complicated, Complex, Chaotic, and Confused—each requiring a different leadership style.
- Agency refers to the capacity of an individual or system to act independently and make its own choices. In this series, we'll explore how AI is diffusing agency, giving individuals the power to execute tasks that once required entire organisations.
- Doctrine refers to the fundamental principles that guide an organisation's actions and decisions. It's the playbook that helps a team coordinate and adapt.