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Transform How You Lead

  If you’re leading a growing company, you’ve felt it: execution slows down, misalignment creeps in, and stress builds. It’s not because your people aren’t smart or dedicated. It’s because the system you’re running on can’t handle the complexity anymore. That’s why I created The 8-Week Shift – Organizational Physics Management Certification. It’s a live, cohort-based course designed for leaders

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When it comes to AI transformation, Airtable is half right

Summary Insight: Airtable’s AI shift proves the point: tools don’t transform companies—structure does. Get the rules right and AI fuels leverage; get them wrong and it multiplies chaos. Key Takeaways: Structure must match strategy—especially when AI changes the game. Effectiveness dies when buried under efficiency. Pilot AI at the edge, not under ops. Centralize data and knowledge, then decentralize decisions.

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From AI Individuals to AI Teams: The Real Inflection Point

Summary Insight: The next AI leap isn’t faster individuals—it’s augmented teams. The real edge comes from building a centralized AI brain that unifies humans and machines around shared context, speed, and scale. Key Takeaways: AI multiplies chaos or clarity—your context decides which. Tools without shared context stall; tools with it compound. The winning CEOs master context at scale as the

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The CEO as Chief Context Officer

Summary Insight: The CEO’s true job is shifting: in the AI era, they are the Chief Context Officer. Mastering context—shared meaning across humans and AI—is how companies beat the complexity tax and scale with speed. Key Takeaways: Complexity tax slows every growing company; context removes it. Technical context engineering enables organizational context engineering. AI amplifies context—clarity compounds, chaos multiplies. Most

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SWOT Guide Old

SWOT Guide Download Strategic alignment is the act of identifying and aligning a company’s unique and valuable capabilities with growing market opportunities. With the help of this guide and its associated SWOT analysis tools, your company can accomplish the equivalent of two to three months’ worth of strategic planning and alignment in just two days. Download the Strategic Alignment Workshop

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How to Structure a House of Brands

Positioning a Brand Is One Thing. Structuring to Execute Across Many Is Another. Summary Insight: Positioning wins the mind. Structure wins the market. If you’re building a house of brands, execution depends on how you allocate power, not just how you tell the story. Key Takeaways: Positioning alone won’t scale a portfolio—structure must evolve with strategy. Decentralize early-stage brands; centralize

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Grok 3.5 and Organizational Physics: Scaling-up from First Principles

Physics is the Law and Everything Else is a Recommendation Summary Insight: If Grok 3.5 is built from first principles, your company should be too. You can’t bolt cutting-edge AI onto a disordered organization and expect magic—first, fix the foundation. Key Takeaways: Grok 3.5 uses the laws of physics—like conservation of energy and momentum—to reason from first principles. Organizational Physics

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Designing Organizational Structures That Thrive in the AI Era

AI Won’t Replace Your Leadership Team. It Will Transform It. Summary Insight: AI won’t replace your leadership team—it will become part of it. This article shows CEOs how to redesign their organizational structure around a Strategic Execution Team (SET) to integrate AI intentionally and scale without chaos. Key Takeaways: The SET model turns AI from a threat into an ally

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Case Study: Yoco

Decoupling long-range and short-range orientation inside the structure unlocks energy as you can tackle the long term without compromising the immediate needs of the short term. , Headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa, Yoco was founded in 2015 and has grown to become South Africa’s leading mobile payments solution. CEO Katlego Maphai engaged with Lex and Organizational Physics to conduct

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