The Work Beneath the Work
Ted LeonhardtEssays on creative leadership, culture, and becoming
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Try to Resolve. Sit and Stew. Leave.
“He hired me last year to manage the creatives,” he said. “Twenty years in the game. Last job, CCO. I’ve seen it all.”
His boss had built a hundred-person consultancy with $25 million in fees. Now he wanted $50 million. Get billings up! A...
Big Needs Small
Every Monday morning at The Leonhardt Group, we gathered in the big conference room and I told a short story. The details changed. The point never did.
Something we’d done last week. Something a client said. Something I’d read. Evidence th...
Advisory Notes: What the AI Native Firm Misses
Greg tracks five signals from professional services:
- AI is pulling the middle out of firms, leaving senior judgment on top and the machine doing the rest.
- The pyramid was never a law of nature. It was a cost structure.
- Now that...
The Room in Bellingham
AI’s taking the technical work. Humanoid robots are coming for the rest. What’s left — what only people can do — the human stuff. And to do the human stuff well, we have to get better at each other.
That’s what we’re talking about on Octob...
Advisory Notes: Fragmented to Unified
Tokyo, 2000. Stepping into a cab, I see the driver reading a comic.
It’s manga — a Japanese comic book. The protagonist, a short, dark-haired exec, with an intense look. I recognize him. It’s Carlos Ghosn.
At the time, Ghosn was eighteen...
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