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Fractional and Interim Roles - What you pay me for. And what not.

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I love fractional and interim work for the chance to have positive impact on various people and businesses in a short time. Yes, it comes with a risk. There are months with little traction between jobs. There is constant networking to keep being visible (and I am no natural networker….) And once in an assignment, it is constant grinding beyond usual working hours. So it is all or nothing. And I quite like it, as it is most rewarding after 6-8 month in an assignment to hand over to the final team, knowing to having moved the needle for the team in challenging times. When I see former colleagues turning friends and earlier employees stil asking “what would Nicole have done…” - then something good has happened. Rewarding. That is, why I take the risk of slow months without income and the uncertainty of the next assignment. To me, it is worth it. Photo by Getty for Unsplash+ Fractional ≠ Part-Time Let me get one thing out of the way immediately, because it causes confusion with almost eve...
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AI Changing Ops Leadership & Advisory

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Photo: Alex Shuper for Unsplash+ AI Advice Is Cheap & Instant Advice by AI is cheap. Generative AI fed with context gives every operational team, start-up or corporate alike, some good starting point. It drafts your vision, your OKR and writes your playbook to your next goal. It drafts your roadmap with quality gates to pass. Whatever you ask it for, it generates it with patience, reworks, adapts, challenges itself. Sparring Partner Supercharged It reads thorough and comprehensive when you manage to get your context input and prompt right, put in some time to refine. And in this, it accelerates research and planning, acts as a first advisor, a sparring partner when used wisely. Theoretical Advice Only: Crushed It certainly crushes advisory businesses tailored around theoretical advice when the smart working student crafts a full tailored operations GTM strategy in like 2 hours or less including interactive Google Sheets. (Not talking about Claude Code here or OpenClaw, very diffe...
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Follow "Generation Leadership" on Substack

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 The full publication is now available on Substack. Follow on Substack for regular update and news. Generation Leadership :  https://generationleadership.substack.com/
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Psychological Safety: The Hidden Cost of Teams That Stay Silent

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  The pattern that kills operations I have seen organizations with incident reports drop significantly year-over-year or almost always remain at very low level- but operational turmoil persists. What's actually happened is that the team stopped reporting or never did. They just went silent. And when silent issues eventually surface—triggered by a customer, a cascade, a crisis—they're exponentially more expensive to fix. The root cause is never a lack of process or skill. It's something far more subtle: the micro-behaviors that taught people it was safer to stay quiet than speak up. Often, operational disasters don't start with a big mistake. They start with a small concern no one felt safe to mention. The Hidden Cost of Silence High-performing teams need the security of being able to address problems and obstacles, even in turbulent times. Whether in a startup where processes and roles aren't yet defined, or in a large corporation with structured operations, every ...
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