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The 8 Skills for leaders in the age of AI Leadership

The 8 Skills for leaders in the age of AI

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece called "How many people can I fire?". For some reason, it upset a number of folks who don't agree there will be job cuts and massive shifts from AI. I had quite a few emails - and believe it or not, I really like it when people write in with what they

Dan Ilett · 6 min read min read
The longest minute of my life Wellbeing

The longest minute of my life

Ten years ago today, I had just returned from China on an assignment for the UK government, attracting investors to British technology companies. It was an intense, sprawling job and I arrived home on Saturday afternoon exhausted only to start a new job on Monday at Virgin Money. I knew if

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read
How Many People Can I Fire? AI

How Many People Can I Fire?

I gave a talk last week to a City CIO Club gathering on the next generation of skills leadership teams need to develop around AI. Afterwards, one of the CIOs in the room stood up: "We are on this right now, but only in the tech department. And actually mostly me. I am axing tens of

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read
Bring Out Your Jobs Leadership

Bring Out Your Jobs

The Executive Summary is building a jobs section into the newsletter. Board roles, C-suite appointments, senior leadership positions, NEDs and fractionals appointments. If you're trying to find the best of UK talent and LinkedIn is bringing you some very random and poor results, why not

Dan Ilett · 1 min read min read
How to Fire Someone Leadership

How to Fire Someone

Over Christmas, I read The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. My friend Todd Wade, an excellent Chief Information Security Officer, gave it to me for my birthday. It's a warts-and-all account of how hard it is to be a CEO and the junk you have to deal with as part of the job.

Dan Ilett · 3 min read min read
That's a Wrap for '25 Downtime

That's a Wrap for '25

I can't face another bar, restaurant or event. I don't know what it's like in your industry, but in mine, it's all about network. For the last three weeks, it's been black-tie dinners, pub meetups, parties, lunches and glaze-eyed breakfasts. I gave up drinking alcohol a couple of years ago

Dan Ilett · 4 min read min read