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Rethinking governance for the one-person business in the age of intelligent machines.

Jurgen Appelo doesn't just connect the dots between human leadership and artificial intelligence — he questions whether the dots were in the right place to begin with.

As an author, speaker, and organizational strategist, Jurgen helps leaders navigate the AI transformation of their organizations — and their own roles within them. His work sits at the intersection of human leadership and machine intelligence, where the governance questions are hardest and the strategic stakes are highest.

He is the author of several books on leadership and organizational transformation, including Management 3.0, Managing for Happiness, and Human Robot Agent, his latest work on
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Jurgen Appelo It is not our job to create simple models. That's your job. We only offer the pieces (patterns) for modeling, but the modeling should be done by peopl…moreIt is not our job to create simple models. That's your job. We only offer the pieces (patterns) for modeling, but the modeling should be done by people in the organization. We cannot do that for them. Like LEGO offers 4,000 different types of LEGO blocks, but *you* are the one who should use (some of) those blocks to make something unique in your context. That's not LEGO's job; that's your job. And you're not supposed to use all 4,000 types. You only use what you need. Of course, like LEGO, we can inspire people with some (simple) examples of the things you could be building. That's what case studies are for. #unfix (less)
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“Your career is your own responsibility. Your employer is not your mother.”
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“Management is 5% instruction and 95% communication.”
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“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”
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