What we think
We put quality before quantity and think hard about what could be worth a few minutes of your time. Here are the LUMINUM Partners’ perspectives on the challenges of leadership.
Head of something important
I wanted to be a manager long before I knew what that actually meant. But each promotion turned out to be an entirely new job, one that nobody had taught me. Business school certainly hadn’t.
AI gets stuck in the middle
The critics of corporate AI have a point: enormous investment, very little measurable return. In my view the cause is an old one, and it shows up first in the managers who are expected to make AI work.
People do not change: They adapt. But first they have to see.
When a leader struggles in a bigger role, the usual story is that they are not up to it. That is usually the wrong story. And it tends to produce the wrong response.
The AI questions have changed
For two years, the AI conversation was about opportunity. Now leaders are asking harder questions about themselves and the people they lead.
Transformation on steroids
Boards are tying cost targets to AI. But the management layers expected to save those costs are often left alone, so the savings don’t materialise as expected.
Your AI problem is not in the technology
Every factory could buy an electric motor. Only some changed how they worked around it. AI will pay off for the companies whose leaders do the same.
The year after the promotion
A promotion is announced in a day. Growing into it takes most of a year, and it tends to happen in the same sequence. Knowing the sequence changes how hard it is.
The Corporate AI Journey: Why maturity is a leadership question
Most companies are stuck in the first two stages of the AI journey. A maturity map shows where an organisation stands. Why it stays there is a question of leadership.
The Corporate AI Journey & Maturity Framework
Where an organisation stands with AI, measured by what can be checked: four waves, five levels, and the seven moves between them. Framework by Alexander Mahr; leadership dimension by Alexander Mahr and Jan Sedlacek.
