The Maverick Mapmaker (Stop Tyranny at Work)

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From Tyranny to Harmony
My Personal Proclamation for Genuine Freedom. With AI Management and Leadership Going in the Wrong Direction, Some of Us Should Be Pushing Back.
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Admit it. You Secretly Love Boring Jobs.
Move over AI! Repetitive, mundane work can be surprisingly addictive and mentally rewarding. The future of work sometimes wants us to go slow, not fast.
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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.
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I Really Don't Care If Your Company Dies
Short-termism Deserves Irrelevance. In the Future of Work, AI Management and Leadership Should Do More than Optimize for the Next Quarter.
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Are CEOs Stupid? Or Just Stubborn?
CEOs Baffled by Employee Hostility While Funding Surveillance Tech Revolution. It Seems AI Management Doesn't Come Easy to Everyone.
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Finding Purpose in the Chaos
Radical Centrism, Aimless Wandering, and the Surprise of Finding Purpose. About Preparing Myself for AI Management and Leadership in the Future of Work.
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The Rise of the Agentic Network Organization (ANO)
What's Next for Teal, DAOs, Holacracy, unFIX and RenDanHeYi? Agentic AI Combined with Networked Organizations. A Killer Combo.
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Your New Role Is Collaborative Intelligence Architect and Orchestrator (CIAO)
Between Business Engineer and Chief AI Officer: Defining the Next Stage of Teamwork for Networked Organizations in the Future of Work
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22 Conundrums in a Future of Work with AI
The Critical Questions AI Leadership Must Face as AI Reshapes Work, Power, and Purpose. There's a Lot to Do for the Networked Organizations of the…
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Why Bother? The Future of Learning.
In the age of AI, what’s the point of learning anything? There are no knowledge workers in the future or work. The knowledge of the entire world is…
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Don’t Take Away My Stupid Tasks!
No one can do meaningful, intellectually demanding work every waking second. Sometimes, our brain cells demand boredom. In the age of AI, we need to…
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Kanban Must Evolve in the Age of AI
Why Linear Workflow Visualization Is Doomed in an AI-Driven World. AI Management and Leadership Must Recognize Nonlinearity.
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