What Agent Onboarding Actually Looks Like (A Practical Walkthrough)
6 April 2026The hands-on companion to 'The Management Gap' — onboarding AI agents the way you'd onboard people.
Leadership
What I've learned about leading people, and now agents too.
The Management Gap Nobody's Talking About
2 April 2026Everyone teaches how to build AI agents. Nobody teaches how to lead them. Running an agent workforce is a management job.
Job Interviews should be Auditions
3 December 2005People may/will disagree with me, but I think outsourcing has watered down the average competence of people within my discipline. As such, there’s more opportunity for new team members to threaten project quality. I have long struggled with the value...
The Small Team / Company Argument
14 September 2005Oh boy, this is going to be trouble. But since my readership is small, they’ll never know my tiny blog weighed in on such a “heavy” subject. Such is the subject of the virtues of small companies. I’m referencing the...
And the Meek shall inherit the Company
18 August 2004Have you witnessed this phenomenon? Phase I: You perform well and are recognized as a dependable performer. Others, well, not so much. Consequently, you get all the challenging projects — sometimes two and three at a time. Others, sitting around...
What if you don’t believe in your Project?
16 August 2004I am struggling with yet another work dilemna — am I the biggest complainer lately or what? Have you ever been asked to do something with full knowledge that that is the wrong thing to do? I’m in that situation...
Inappropriate Feedback Design…
29 June 2004The title of this post is regrettably vague — sorry about that. After reading this, maybe you’ll see why. My workplace has a parking lot that I visit sometimes four times a day: park, go to lunch, park, leave. Invariably,...
Passion and Innovation
14 February 2004I’m reading two very different books right now. One is Sojourner: An Insider’s View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission and the other is DW: A Lifetime Going Around in Circles. Folks, these are two very different books. One is about...
Disempowered…
19 December 2003This one is unbelievable. I take pride in managing my life in a very detailed and organized way. Stuff just doesn’t happen to me out of the blue. I usually see a crisis coming from a mile away. But not...