A dinner last week turned into the best argument I’ve heard for dealing with a difficult high performer.
The executive I had dinner with started talking about public swimming pools.
Tina Paterson
Tina Paterson is the trusted strategic partner for CIOs and tech leaders cutting through transformation chaos to deliver results that actually matter.
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He could have refreshed the strategy in thirty minutes. He booked two half-days instead.
A CIO I work with told me recently that it was probably time to refresh his technology strategy for the next two to three years.
Everyone on the team knew how to make the decision. They just weren’t making it.
I’ve been running Outcomes Over Hours for nearly seven years.
Most people get Workslop because they delegate to AI badly. The fix is a rule I've used on my team for years.
Something shifted on social media this week.
Most leaders are rewarded for what they start. The rare ones know how to stop.
A CIO I’ve worked with for years moved into a new role at a large Australian organisation.
Most transformations plan around the projects. Few plan around the people absorbing them.
In 1:1 conversations with CIOs over the past month, the same worry keeps surfacing.
Most transformation costs are tracked to the cent, but the benefits are often a vague sentence.
When you sit in a transformation steering meeting, watch where the rigour goes.
AI is about to make your judgment priceless. You’re defunding the thing that produces it.
Look at where the new money is going this year.
Don’t Forget the Basics
Everyone’s chasing the next AI tool. The leaders who will win the second half of 2026 are quietly doing something far less exciting.
The Discipline Everyone Skips
I hold three Lean Six Sigma certifications from my years at GE. The most valuable thing they taught me is the one step every leader is tempted to skip.