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      AI Changing Ops Leadership & Advisory


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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 different animal. AI automation revolutionalizes ops execution. I may write on this next time.)

The New Leadership Shift

For this very time, successful operational leadership and operations advisory will entirely shift to leveraging years of experience and first hand examples to:

AI as Wise Guide

🧭 Guide Generative AI as a support resource, not the leading master for everything.

Build Smart AI Tools

🔧 Co-Create AI tooling & agents setup which provides insight that matters from big data instead of killing with mass; automating operational tasks at mass. Accept AI as the master where it really excels - and have the judgment to differentiate between the master and support function wisely.

Balance Human Negotiations

🤝 Dealing with humans at the other side of the table, judging to find balance between theoretical applied frameworks and true prioritized requirements for the individual use case at this very time.

Master Crisis Setbacks

🔥 Dealing with human made impacts from supplier warehouse fire to freighters stuck in the Suez Canal or simply the IPx-test coming back with negative results. Dealing not only with the fact impact but with the mood impact to the team. Setback Handling, based on trust (still) in organizations and ecosystem not yet transistioned to AI heavy operations.

Pivot with Precision

⚡ Be able to pivot at the right time and triage on a backlog with a sense of urgency, excellent judgment and decisiveness - leveraging AI data insights combined with human sense.

Forge Unbreakable Teams

🌟 Lead the team through the storm, gain trust of individuals, form individuals to THE team which executes on the plan resourceful, engaged and jointly towards the North Star.

Human-in-the-Loop Wins

Tailored theoretical knowledge is cheap to retrieve now, democratized, accessible.

What matters most in operational leadership and advisory is to co-create the AI operational setup and to master the human-in-the-loop balance, having emotional intelligence to handle all human stakeholders in a way, to have them aligned towards your mission and partner for AI heavy execution implementation.

What are your thoughts on AI changing Operational Leadership, Advisory and Interim Management? Whom do you partner with?

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