Everyone with an internet connection now has access to a ready workforce of AIs, ready to act on your instructions. Success no longer depends on how much you can do on your own. It depends on how clearly you can set direction, allocate your own resources, design modular workflows, and orchestrate outcomes so that AI works for you.
The series of quick articles below is my guide to stepping into CEO-mode with AI. It’s based on my 10 years of experience as a CEO (managing people, not AIs) and everything I’ve learnt since about how this applies directly to managing AI chat interfaces and agents.
Scan the links below and click on one article that sounds interesting. You’ll get a quick 2 minute read and a copy-paste prompt to kickstart you. Good luck and enjoy.
AI has made leadership skills mandatory. Direction, orchestration, and judgment are the new baseline.
2. Designing Your AI Org Chart: How to Build Before You Scale
Before you scale outputs, build a lightweight AI organizational structure around your projects.
3. Owning Your Own Resource Stack
Your time, money, and energy are limited. Allocate them deliberately or drift will allocate them for you.
4. Building a Super-You: AI as a Mirror, Not a Servant
AI can amplify the parts of you you need most, if you design it to mirror your best self, not flatter your defaults.
5. Breaking Analyst Anchors with AI
Multi-agent workflows crack inherited patterns faster than brute force prompting. Design breaks gravity.
6. Containerisation of Thought
Modular AI handoffs are the new shipping containers. The real economy is shifting from human-to-human to AI-to-AI flows.
7. Orchestrate, Audit, Iterate
Build invisible scaffolding: lightweight quality controls that keep workstreams aligned to goals, not just outputs.
8. How to Fit Into the AI Workflow Future
Don’t ask how AI can help you. Ask how you can design yourself into agentic, modular ecosystems.
9. Where the Value Pools Shift Next
Owning armies of workers becomes a liability. Orchestrators of modular value chains will define the next decade.
This series is inspired by my discussions with Erik over at YWR (go and subscribe to the Substack). You can see our Substack Live 1h video discussion on these topics here: Thinking Like A CEO Video