The messy middle is not a mindset problem. It is a measurement problem: organizations still reward the old ladder while the work inside every title is being reassembled. The prescription is …
Essays on AI Strategy, Leadership & Organizational Change
The problem is not information overload. It is absorption failure. Every essay here starts from that premise: that how an organization integrates change matters more than which tools it adopts or how fast it moves.
Madam I’m Adam is a weekly newsletter and essay series on AI strategy, organizational knowledge, and human leadership in the age of intelligent systems. The frameworks here are for people who want to understand what is actually changing — and why the human layer remains the one that determines the outcome.
If you lead people, strategy, or technology in a world being rewired by AI, you are in the right place.
Use It Or Lose It
The Integration Advantage is not stored value. It circulates or it calcifies. And you can't tell which one is happening, because calcification feels exactly like wisdom. In 2026, Adrienne LaFrance …
When Your Complement Becomes Your Competitor
The complement doesn't announce when it becomes a competitor. Your team does. The signal is the silence in the room when someone finishes calculating. Most professionals track AI capability the way …
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The Long Middle
The experienced professional has spent decades accumulating exactly what the AI era demands: the compound of procedural mastery, perspectival depth, participatory knowledge, and perceptual acuity that …
Epistemic Grief
The grief is appropriate. Staying there isn’t. The feeling that arrives when AI produces in forty seconds something you spent three days learning to do tends to get renamed before it reaches the …
The Delegation Trap: Navigating AI’s Impact on Professional Accountability
Accountability cannot be delegated. Everything else can, and that's exactly the problem. Nobody decided to become a reviewer of AI output. It happened task by task. An email here, a summary there, …
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