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Anthropic just launched a AI Fluency for Small Business course that is free. If you are small business owner and want a primer on AI, would be a great resource to spend an hour going through.

Leading a business is hard right now because there are two competing forces impacting most leader's headspace: Rapid Innovation vs. Timeless Principles 𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘'𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗠𝗘𝗔𝗡 𝟭. 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 We are living in a world where business models have to change if they want to compete. Leaders are reinventing products, org structures, and how they execute work. That requires rapid decision making, taking risks, and being open to new ideas that you have never considered before. Often this requires leaders to be out ahead of their team, challenging assumptions, pushing people to try new things, putting stress on the organization. This is frontier thinking. 𝟮. 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 Meanwhile, leaders also owe it to their company to provide clarity and preserve their values. Leaders must fight to hang on to timeless principles, like: → 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 - Both your team and your customers. → 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 - All that innovation is only as good as you can help people adopt it. → 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲𝘀 - Slow down and think about if the things you are doing are in alignment with the things you say you care about. These things are hard because they force leaders to slow down in a time where you really need to move fast. It forces you to be thoughtful, pragmatic, and methodical. When maybe it would be easier to just knock down a wall and do it. This has always been true. It's more true now.

What an honor it is to be a part of something great. Thank you to all who have supported me along the way!

The trouble with being an expert is that it is difficult to innovate on the thing you are an expert in. And by innovate, I do not mean incremental improvement. By innovate, I mean the ability to radically reimagine a process to the point it is done in a completely new and better way. In my little world of cybersecurity and GRC I can see that phenomena in many places. For example, I speak with auditors all the time. And when the think of audit and assurance they think: - Gather evidence - Review Evidence - Write conclusion - Remediate issues That is how it has been done for a hundred years. And the experts in the field I speak with often have a hard time imagining it could be done differently. But, now with AI we are approaching a world where: - A system could validate itself in real time - Self correct issues - Report out to humans Maybe auditors could should shift their role to validation of AI rather than the control. Maybe they could author/govern the AI auditors and never test a control at all. A small team of "audit engineers" could do what used to take an entire company to do. It's for reasons like this that I think the world professional services and expert-led jobs are ripe for disruption. Some young genius that was never told any different is going to reinvent the process right out from under us. I'm kind of excited about it.