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Sharp, practical ideas on operations, management, workplace power, and the tradeoffs shaping organizational performance. Executive Operations explores operating models, capital, resilience, and AI. Workplace Power examines how decisions, talent, and networks create influence and determine outcomes inside modern complex organizations.

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Saša's perspective is formed across experience in multiple industries, reflecting a well-informed view of what leaders face in complex, modern, ever-evolving organizations.

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Executive Operations

01When Does Productivity Demand a New Operating Model?The executive challenge is not choosing between continuous improvement and transformation.10 min read · Video 2:59
02Are We Automating the Business—or Redesigning It?The strategic value of AI does not come from making old work faster.11 min read · Debate 2:12
03Where Should Our Next Operations Dollar Go?The hardest capital-allocation decisions are rarely between good and bad projects.11 min read · Video 2:47
04How Much Resilience Is Worth Paying For?Resilience can protect revenue, service, customers, and strategic options — but redundancy, inventory, excess capacity, alternate suppliers, and recovery capability all carry a price.12 min read · Debate 2:32
05Where Should We Build, Source, and Operate as the World Fragments?The lowest-cost footprint is no longer automatically the best footprint.11 min read · Video 2:52
06When Revenue, Service, Inventory, and Cash Conflict, What Wins?The hardest operating decisions rarely involve choosing between a good option and a bad one.11 min read · Video 2:35
07What Service Levels Are Worth Paying For?Service is often treated as an unquestioned good: faster delivery, higher fill rates, more availability, more customization, more support.10 min read · Video 2:27
08What Must Be Standardized—and What Should Stay Local?Distributed operations create a permanent executive tension.11 min read · Debate 2:18
09Which Decisions Should AI Make—and Which Must Stay Human?AI is moving from analysis into decision-making and action.10 min read · Debate 2:22
10Who Is Accountable When AI Makes the Decision?AI can recommend, decide, and increasingly act.9 min read · Video 2:30
11How Should Management Be Redesigned for Human-AI Operations?AI will not simply change what employees do.10 min read · Video 3:08
12What Should the COO Own When the Levers Sit Across the C-Suite?The modern COO is increasingly accountable for outcomes produced by decisions that sit across Finance, Technology, HR, Commercial, Procurement, and other functions.11 min read · Video 2:58

Workplace Power Insights

01Approval Is Not ReadinessNewYou can approve the right strategy and still authorize an initiative the organization is not ready to execute.9 min read · Video 2:19
02Performance Can Become a Talent CeilingMost organizations make a perfectly rational choice with their best people: when the work gets difficult, give it to the person who has already proved they can handle it.11 min read · Debate 2:22
03Informal Networks Are Part of the Operating SystemComplex organizations do not run through formal structure alone.10 min read · Debate 2:28
04Support Is Not ControlA decision may have broad support and still be exposed to one unresolved condition with enough practical control to stop execution.11 min read · Video 2:11
05Exceptions Are Evidence About the SystemOrganizations need standards, and they need exceptions.13 min read · Video 2:14

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