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Win your Future in the Agentic AI Era

  Cisco’s former CEO John Chambers said that reinventing not only your company but yourself is the critical skill for every leader in the digital age. That has rarely been truer. AI has moved from chatbots that answer questions to agents that plan, use tools and finish multi-step work. Change is constant, and the pressure to keep up is real. Every era of rapid change feels unprecedented until it becomes normal. Here are 20 keys to staying in charge of your career through this one, each with something you can try this week. Part I: Work with agents 1. Direct agents, don’t just chat with them. The skill that matters now is briefing, decomposing and reviewing. Google’s Antigravity 2.0, for instance, is built to orchestrate multiple agents in parallel, with one coding a website while another generates brand assets. Treat agents like a fast, literal junior team. Try this: write a one-page brief for a task you’d give a new hire, hand it to an agent, then critique the output as you woul...
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Unleash the Inner Champion

  We all have champion qualities within us. In Talent Is Overrated , Geoff Colvin makes a compelling case that extraordinary performance is driven less by natural gifts than many people assume and far more by deliberate practice. Looking at elite performers across different fields, he explores how sustained, purposeful practice plays an enormous role in developing excellence. For me, one of the most empowering ideas behind this research is that it gives us fewer excuses for why we cannot become significantly better at what we do. Colvin's argument raises two important questions for anyone who wants to perform at a higher level: 1. You need to know what you want. The only way you are going to be truly committed is to know exactly what you want. It cannot be a "maybe." You need a clear set of goals to which you are totally committed. Clarity gives your effort direction and gets your grit muscles working for you. 2. You need to believe you have a say in the outcome. Do you ...
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