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Your Leaders Are Sleepwalking Into the Gorge
AI Productivity Theater in 2026: Leadership Must Wake Up
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Snare of the Slopreneur
AI slop entrepreneurs have no moat, but someone has to explore the new tech
 • Jurgen Appelo
AI Raised the Bar for My Keynote Presentations
Building quality presentations in the age of AI takes more work, not less
 • Jurgen Appelo
Stop Chasing AI Tools
Technostress and FOBO: The Nervous System Problem Behind AI Tool Overload
 • Jurgen Appelo
AI Rewrites the Advisory Playbook
How advisory boards and AI transform governance from theater to stewardship
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Business Model Canvas Graveyard
AI Is Making Visual Templates Obsolete
 • Jurgen Appelo
You Cannot Please Everyone
Those who criticize AI-assisted writing are snobbish fools failing to grasp the idea of a target audience.
 • Jurgen Appelo
Enough with the Playbooks and Frameworks!
Influencers obsess over startup playbooks and business frameworks, but the biggest wins happen when you start messy.
 • Jurgen Appelo
Stop Hiring Experienced Candidates
When Fresh Perspectives and the Beginner's Mind Beat Industry Experience in Hiring
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Revenge of Command-and-Control
AI agents promise autonomy but demand command and control—threatening decades of team empowerment with a return to micromanagement.
 • Jurgen Appelo
From Dollhouse to LEGO Bricks: Why Patterns Beat Frameworks
The anatomy of pattern languages—and why they beat frameworks for organizational design
 • Jurgen Appelo
Escape Velocity—How AI Will Achieve Peak Bullshit Work
AI removes the human bottlenecks that once kept meaningless bureaucracy in check. Prepare for a future of work where AI management is all bullshit.
 • Jurgen Appelo
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