The Executive's Field Guide to Directing AI
What changes for leaders when the machine does the doing.
A look at what’s inside · 8 pages
What it is
When the machine handles the routine work, leadership changes: you are no longer managing the doing, you are building an organisation of people who direct machines and own the verdict. This guide is the operating model for that shift.
It runs the equation at organisation scale — shrink the routine process, grow the human experience — and turns it into three concrete moves, three honest measures, and the traps that sink it.
What’s inside
- 01The executive's shiftFrom managing doers to directing directors.
- 02The equation at scaleRoutine process down, human work up, across the org.
- 03Three moves for leadersName the routine, raise the bar, fix accountability.
- 04What to measureHours, processes, rungs — not a universal ROI figure.
- 05The trapsSpeed without direction, literacy as paperwork, ROI theatre.
How to use it
- Read it before you roll AI out across a team.
- Run it on your leadership team with the Director Track, or org-wide with the company engagements.
Keep going.
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Read moreThe Equation, Explained
One line, five variables, your whole role. Read TBC = V + D(P/HX)^AI once and you can see where your work is going.
Read moreFree at the door.
Tools are the first layer of the Codex. The programmes are where you put them to work, on your own role and your own company.