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In this episode of The Learning & Development Podcast, David James is joined by Tracie Cantu to discuss her book Running L&D Like a Business. Tracie shares the L&D leadership experience that shaped her perspective and what compelled her to write the book. They explore what it truly means to run L&D like a business and why this mindset is so often missing, before diving into the Learning Operations Business Model and its four core components, and the three buckets of the Learning Operations Blueprint. Tracie unpacks the important distinction between the "customer" and the "consumer" of learning, explains what good governance looks like without it becoming bureaucracy, and makes the case for prioritising people and process before technology. Tracie also shares her advocacy for a go-to-market strategy for internal learning initiatives and closes with practical advice for listeners on where and how to begin applying these frameworks in their own organisations. Take your L&D to the next level Take advantage of thousands of hours of analysis. Hundreds of conversations with industry innovators and 25+ years of hands-on global L&D leadership. It's all distilled into one framework to help you level up L&D. Access the L&D Maturity Model here - https://360learning.com/maturity-model KEY TAKEAWAYS L&D's challenge isn't talent or effort, it´s a weak operating model - regardless of the industry.  Treating L&D as a business function is what fixes this problem. Every initiative must tie clearly to helping the organisation make money, save money or reduce risk, while still delivering a fit‑for‑purpose learner experience.   High‑impact programmes are launched, not just built apply go‑to‑market thinking, marketing assets and find champions to demonstrate the benefits so that your great work doesn't become shelfware.   BEST MOMENTS "Our job is to help them make money, save money, and reduce risk - if we´re not, then it´s not aligned to the business goals."   "Build it and they will come. That is bulls**t. They will not come....because we are not marketing it."   "We should be anchoring every training we have to that high customer value." Tracie Cantu Bio Tracie Cantu, MHRM, CPTD is a recognised expert in learning operations and technology with more than two decades of experience leading and transforming enterprise L&D functions. Her career spans aviation, government, retail, and tech, including senior roles such as Director of Learning Technology at Whole Foods Market (Amazon), Head of Learning Ecosystems at Meta, and L&D leadership at Atlassian. Today she serves as CEO and Chief Learning Strategist at Your CLO, where she partners with CHROs, COOs, and senior L&D leaders to modernise learning operations, optimise technology ecosystems, and implement scalable processes that drive measurable business impact. A sought-after international speaker, Tracie regularly presents at major industry events including ATD and Learning Technologies UK. She is the author of Running L&D Like a Business https://www.linkedin.com/in/traciemcantu/ https://www.yourclo.net/ Running L&D Like a Business Book - https://www.yourclo.net/running-l-d-like-a-business VALUABLE RESOURCES L&D Master Class Series: https://360learning.com/blog/l-and-d-masterclass-home ABOUT THE HOST David James  David has been a People Development professional for more than 20 years, most notably as Director of Talent, Learning & OD for The Walt Disney Company across Europe, the Middle East & Africa.  As well as being the Chief Learning Officer at 360Learning, David is a prominent writer and speaker on topics around modern and digital L&D.  CONTACT METHOD  Twitter:  https://twitter.com/davidinlearning LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjameslinkedin L&D Collective: https://360learning.com/the-l-and-d-collective Blog: https://360learning.com/blog L&D Master Class Series: https://360learning.com/blog/l-and-d-masterclass-home This Podcast has been brought to you by Disruptive Media. https://disruptivemedia.co.uk/

Daniel Bay, Chief People Officer at Underdog, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why HR teams in hypergrowth should stop copying big-company playbooks, how Underdog invests deeply in manager coaching, and why impact matters more than activity.----  Sponsor Links:

It's time to celebrate the people who keep Jira running and teams moving forward: Jira Admins!Join us for this special Jira Admin Day episode of The Jira Life as we bring together a panel of experienced Jira Admins from across the Atlassian community to share their stories, lessons learned, favorite tips, biggest challenges, and the moments that made them love, and sometimes question, the role.Whether you're a seasoned administrator, new to Jira, or work alongside Jira Admins every day, this conversation is packed with real world experiences, practical insights, and plenty of community spirit.Bring your questions, share your own experiences in the live chat, and help us recognize the incredible work Jira Admins do every day. This episode is all about learning from one another, celebrating the community that keeps teams successful, and having fun along the way.The Jira Life=====================================Having trouble keeping up with when we are live? Sign up for our Atlassian Community Group!⁠https://ace.atlassian.com/the-jira-life/⁠Or Follow us on LinkedIn! / the-jira-life Become a member on YouTube to get access to perks:⁠   / @thejiralife  ⁠.Hosts:Alex "Dr. Jira" Ortiz / alexortiz89 / @apetechtechtutorials Rodney "The Jira Guy" Nissen / rgnissen ⁠https://thejiraguy.com⁠Sarah Wright / satwright Producer:"King Bob" Robert Wen / robert-wen-csm-spc6-a552051 Executive Producer: Lina OrtizMusic provided by Monstercat:=====================================Intro: Nitro Fun - Cheat Codes / monstercat Outro: Fractal - Atrium / monstercatinstinct

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Jesse Zhang is the Co-founder & CEO of Decagon, one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies. In just two and a half years, Decagon has grown to around 500 employees, raised approximately US$500 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Accel and Bain Capital Ventures, and today powers AI customer service for many of the world's largest airlines, banks, retailers and technology companies. In this rare in-depth conversation, Jesse reflects on growing up in Boulder, Colorado, an intensely disciplined childhood shaped by maths competitions and Chinese immigrant parents, graduating from Harvard in just three years, and why his first startup taught him far more than his second. Vidit and Jesse explore how Decagon found its billion-dollar opportunity by interviewing hundreds of customers, why they reached US$1 million in ARR with just two people, how to hire exceptional talent, why speed has become the ultimate competitive advantage in AI, building one of Silicon Valley's leading AI companies, and what it really takes to scale from founder mode to leading 500 people. Please enjoy exploring your curiosity. ________ 00:00:00 Who is Jesse Zhang? 02:10 The Huawei story that shaped Decagon 07:20 Why Maths Olympiads create successful founders 13:05 Leaving Harvard a year early 17:40 The startup that nearly broke him 23:30 Losing two co-founders 29:15 Why he started again 34:20 The question that found Decagon 40:10 Hitting $1M ARR with just 3 employees early on 45:25 Learning enterprise sales from scratch 50:35 Building AI agents before the hype 56:15 Why Decagon is beating bigger rivals 1:02:20 Hiring only "serious people" 1:08:15 Letting go as CEO 1:13:10 Marriage, sleep & startup obsession 1:17:05 What he's really building ________ Get in touch with us via email at contact@curiositycentre.com Join our stable of commercial partners including the Australian Government, Google, KPMG, Vanta, Allens, Macquarie Capital, City of Sydney and more.  Show notes and more episodes here Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram Get in touch with our Founder and Host, Vidit Agarwal directly here Contact us via our website ________ The High Flyers Podcast features in-depth interviews with the world's most influential figures in business, tech, finance, government and sport. Launched in 2020, it has ranked in the global top ten for past three years, with listeners in 27 countries and over 200+ episodes released, and featured in Forbes, Daily Telegraph, and at SXSW. Our guests include -- Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister of Australia), Jason Collins (Head of BlackRock, Asia Pacific), Brad Banducci (CEO, Woolworths), Michael Schneider (CEO, Bunnings), David Eckstein (CFO, Legora), Jesse Zhang (CEO, Decagon), Elena Verna (Head of Growth, Lovable), David Haber (a16z Partner), Jodie Auster (Uber's Global Head of Travel), Rob Giglio (CCO, Canva), Jean-Michel Limieux (CTO, Shopify and Atlassian), Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta), Cristina Cordova (COO, Linear), Gautam Chari (Head of Capital Commitments, Bank of America), John Haddock (CBO, Harvey), Mark Suster (Partner, Upfront Ventures), Niki Scevak (Partner, Blackbird), Craig Tiley (CEO, USA Tennis), Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel), Paul Bassat (Partner, Square Peg), Bowen Pan (Creator, Facebook Marketplace), Peter Varghese (Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Australian Government), Sam Sicilia (CIO, Hostplus), Jack Zhang (CEO, Airwallex), Tim Doyle (CEO, Eucalyptus), Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (CEO, Xero), Sanjeev Gandhi (CEO, Orica) and Philip Green (Australia's Ambassador/High Commissioner to India), 

Nichole Viviani, Chief People, Culture and Change Officer at Global Payments, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why culture makes or breaks M&A, how Global Payments aligned 27,000 people through “goals before roles,” and why leaders need to over-communicate through uncertainty.----  Sponsor Links:

David Cross is the CISO at Atlassian. In this episode, he joins host Scott Schober and Flavius Plesu, CEO at OutThink, to discuss the gap between what organizations measure and what actually tells you behavior is changing, including what proof looks like, the success of phishing programs, and more. Culture Shapes Security is a Cybercrime Magazine podcast series brought to you by OutThink. To learn more about our sponsor, visit https://outthink.io.

Courtney Kolar, Chief People Officer at Neighborly, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how she helped build an HR function from a three-person team into a 40-person people organization, the People Services 2020 roadmap that created the foundation for scale, and why every company should operate as if it needs to be IPO ready.----  Sponsor Links:

In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers Show, I sit down with Priyank Jain, Enterprise Strategy & Innovation Leader at Atlassian, for a conversation about AI storytelling for business leaders and why the success of any innovation often depends on the story told long before a product is introduced. Priyank shares the personal journey that took him from a childhood ambition of becoming a doctor to building enterprise systems that improve outcomes for millions of people. That perspective has shaped his belief that technology should always begin with people, making this an insightful conversation for anyone asking how to communicate AI transformation inside complex organizations. Drawing on his experience at IBM and Atlassian, Priyank explains why storytelling for AI adoption is becoming one of the most valuable skills for innovation leaders. He argues that employees rarely resist new technology because they dislike innovation. Instead, they resist uncertainty. That distinction changes the entire conversation around AI change management storytelling and offers a practical AI disruption communication strategy that focuses on trust, clarity, and shared outcomes instead of technical specifications. We also discuss storytelling for AI innovation through the lens of healthcare, where Priyank helped introduce new approaches by focusing first on patients, clinicians, and caregivers rather than software features. His examples demonstrate why communicating AI to employees begins with understanding the human impact before discussing the technology itself. Another major theme throughout our conversation is storytelling for C-suite leaders and the importance of building support before launching an initiative. Priyank explains why winning AI stakeholder buy-in starts with listening, conducting thoughtful user interviews, and allowing stakeholders to help shape the future instead of presenting them with a finished solution. His approach provides a practical corporate storytelling strategy that encourages collaboration rather than compliance. As we discuss innovation storytelling in the age of AI, Priyank shares valuable lessons on how to lead AI culture change by balancing evidence with emotion. He explains why data creates awareness, but stories create movement, and why every successful human-AI collaboration narrative begins with understanding what matters most to the people who will ultimately use the technology. Whether you are responsible for storytelling for digital transformation, leading enterprise innovation, or looking for better ways of communicating breakthrough ideas, this conversation is filled with practical insights that can help leaders build confidence, encourage adoption, and create lasting support for new ideas. Priyank also reflects on the greatest innovation in history, the innovation team he would most like to have joined, and why he believes the world's greatest opportunity has nothing to do with technology at all. Instead, he argues that compassion and empathy remain the qualities we need most if innovation is going to improve people's lives.

David Eckstein is the CFO of Legora, one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise software companies, which grew from $1 million to $100 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just 18 months. David reflects on his parents' divorce, graduating from college in three years, and realising at 22 that he was “living someone else's life” before leaving investment banking for Silicon Valley. Vidit and David explore his journey through Box, OpenDNS, Menlo Security and Vanta to Legora; helping sell OpenDNS to Cisco; investing in more than 100 startups; and how 16 years of relationships helped Legora attract $1.5 billion in investor demand and raise a $600 million Series D. They also discuss the changing role of the CFO, AI economics and token spend, how to diligence a startup before joining, lessons from exceptional founders, Legora's extraordinary growth, and David's philosophy of loyalty and giving more than he takes. Please enjoy exploring your curiosity. ________ 00:00:00 Meet David Eckstein 00:05:00 Why Loyalty Drives Everything 00:13:00 The Obsession With Permanence 00:23:00 “I Was Living Someone Else's Life” 00:28:00 How Relationships Helped Raise $600M 00:38:00 The New Economics of AI 00:45:00 Lessons From Four Hypergrowth Companies 00:55:00 Why He Bet His Career on Legora 01:05:00 What Makes Legora Special 01:12:00 The Hardest 25 Days of His Life 01:15:00 Give More Than You Take 01:21:00 Rapid Fire ________ Get in touch with us via email at contact@curiositycentre.com Join our stable of commercial partners including the Australian Government, Google, KPMG, Vanta, Allens, Macquarie Capital, City of Sydney and more.  Show notes and more episodes here Follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram Get in touch with our Founder and Host, Vidit Agarwal directly here Contact us via our website ________ The High Flyers Podcast features in-depth interviews with the world's most influential figures in business, tech, finance, government and sport. Launched in 2020, it has ranked in the global top ten for past three years, with listeners in 27 countries and over 200+ episodes released, and featured in Forbes, Daily Telegraph, and at SXSW. Our guests include -- Malcolm Turnbull (Prime Minister of Australia), Jason Collins (Head of BlackRock, Asia Pacific), Brad Banducci (CEO, Woolworths), Michael Schneider (CEO, Bunnings), Elena Verna (Head of Growth, Lovable), David Haber (a16z Partner), Jodie Auster (Uber's Global Head of Travel), Rob Giglio (CCO, Canva), Jean-Michel Limieux (CTO, Shopify and Atlassian), Stevie Case (CRO, Vanta), John Haddock (CBO, Harvey), Mark Suster (Partner, Upfront Ventures), Niki Scevak (Partner, Blackbird), Craig Tiley (CEO, USA Tennis), Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel), Paul Bassat (Partner, Square Peg), Bowen Pan (Creator, Facebook Marketplace), Peter Varghese (Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Australian Government), Sam Sicilia (CIO, Hostplus), Jack Zhang (CEO, Airwallex), Tim Doyle (CEO, Eucalyptus), Sukhinder Singh Cassidy (CEO, Xero), Sanjeev Gandhi (CEO, Orica), Philip Green (Australia's Ambassador/High Commissioner to India), Vivek Bhatia (CEO, MUFG), Cristina Cordova (COO, Linear) and more.

What gives one enterprise an AI advantage over another? According to Atlassian Chief Product & AI Officer Tamar Yehoshua, it’s not simply access to the latest models, it’s the depth of enterprise context. In this episode of Technovation, Tamar joins Peter High to discuss how Atlassian is leveraging decades of workflow history through its Teamwork Graph to power AI across Jira, Confluence, and Rovo. She explains why enterprise context is becoming the defining ingredient for AI success, how software must now be designed for both humans and AI agents, and why leadership judgment becomes even more valuable as AI accelerates software development. Tamar also shares Atlassian’s approach to AI Builder Weeks, measuring AI productivity, building open agent ecosystems, and helping customers realize measurable business value from AI investments. This episode is presented by Mailtrap — Modern Email Delivery for developer & product teams. Learn more at mailtrap.io

Sunaina Lobo, Chief People Officer at Omnissa, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why the HR-IT partnership is becoming critical in the AI era, how Omnissa is approaching AI transformation with a small but mighty team, and what it takes to build an AI-first culture while maintaining trust and engagement.----  Sponsor Links:

This week's Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with guests David Cross, CISO, Atlassian; Kathleen Mullin, Director, SABSA Institute; Montez Fitzpatrick, CISO, Navvis; and Howard Holton, former CEO, GigaOm. Get the show notes here: https://cisoseries.com/the-department-of-know-peoplesoft-exploit-ford-brings-back-gray-beards-llm-vetting/  Huge thanks to our sponsor, Silent Push Most cybersecurity approaches are completely reactive. Victim organizations are hit with an attack and the chase ensues.  Silent Push closes this gap with its Preemptive Cyber Defense platform. Silent Push tracks adversary infrastructure and infrastructure changes across the Internet during the attack preparation phase - while attackers are still staging domains, IPs, and hosting and Silent Push turns that into Indicators of Future Attack® to defend with confidence. For a CISO, that turns invisible risk into early warning, an average of 140 days before a campaign shows up in your environment. Time to act, and a smaller window of exposure, before a threat ever reaches your environment.

In der heutigen Folge sprechen die Finanzjournalisten Nando Sommerfeldt und Holger Zschäpitz über über Metas neue Methode, einen erstaunlichen Internet-Riesen und eine Statistik, die alle MSCI-World-Anleger unbedingt kennen sollten. Meta Platforms, CoreWeave, Nebius Group, Micron Technology, Apple, Bending Spoons, Lime, Rheinmetall, Leonardo, Hensoldt, AeroVironment, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Microsoft, Palantir Technologies, Atlassian, ServiceNow, Workday, Caterpillar, FactSet Research Systems, Sodexo, Tesla, Kion Group, CrowdStrike, Lang & Schwarz, Baader Bank, iShares Core MSCI World ETF (WKN: A0RPWH), Vanguard FTSE All-World ETF (WKN: A2PKXG). Wir freuen uns an Feedback über aaa@welt.de. Noch mehr "Alles auf Aktien" findet Ihr bei WELTplus und Apple Podcasts – inklusive aller Artikel der Hosts. Hier bei WELT: https://www.welt.de/podcasts/alles-auf-aktien/plus247399208/Boersen-Podcast-AAA-Bonus-Folgen-Jede-Woche-noch-mehr-Antworten-auf-Eure-Boersen-Fragen.html. Hier könnt ihr den AAA-Newsletter abonnieren: https://www.welt.de/newsletter/article232797673/Alles-auf-Aktien-Der-taegliche-Boersen-Newsletter-fuer-WELTplus-Abonnenten.html Und – ganz neu: AAA gibt es jetzt auch auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alles_auf_aktien/ Disclaimer: Die im Podcast besprochenen Aktien und Fonds stellen keine spezifischen Kauf- oder Anlage-Empfehlungen dar. Die Moderatoren und der Verlag haften nicht für etwaige Verluste, die aufgrund der Umsetzung der Gedanken oder Ideen entstehen. Hörtipps: Für alle, die noch mehr wissen wollen: Holger Zschäpitz können Sie jede Woche im Finanz- und Wirtschaftspodcast "Deffner&Zschäpitz" hören. +++ Werbung +++ Du möchtest mehr über unsere Werbepartner erfahren? Hier findest du alle Infos & Rabatte! https://linktr.ee/alles_auf_aktien Impressum: https://www.welt.de/services/article7893735/Impressum.html Datenschutz: https://www.welt.de/services/article157550705/Datenschutzerklaerung-WELT-DIGITAL.html

Patricia Frost, Chief People and Places Officer at Seagate, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about her military-to-CPO journey, how Seagate built Talent Link to unlock internal mobility, and what it looks like to democratize AI across a global workforce.----  Sponsor Links:

What if the biggest barrier to successful AI isn't the model itself, but the lack of context behind every decision your teams make? As AI agents become more capable, how do organisations ensure they understand the people, projects, documentation, and history that shape real work? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, recorded at Team '26, I'm joined by Taroon Mandhana, CTO of AI and Teamwork at Atlassian. His responsibilities span engineering for products including Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Trello, alongside the company's AI strategy and the development of Rovo. Our conversation explores why Atlassian believes AI should become a teammate rather than simply another chatbot. Taroon explains why enterprise context has become one of the most valuable assets in the AI era. While today's foundation models continue to improve at an incredible pace, they still lack the organisational knowledge that human teams naturally accumulate over time. Atlassian's Teamwork Graph aims to bridge that gap by connecting people, projects, documentation, code, goals, and conversations into a living knowledge network that AI agents can use to produce more accurate, relevant outcomes. We also discuss why Atlassian has chosen an open approach, making its Teamwork Graph available through technologies such as MCP rather than limiting it to its own AI products. Taroon shares why interoperability will become increasingly important as businesses adopt multiple AI platforms and why organisations should be free to use the agents that best suit their needs without losing access to valuable business context. Another fascinating part of our conversation focuses on how Atlassian's own engineering teams are changing the way they build software. Smaller teams, tighter collaboration, AI-assisted development, and faster iteration cycles are allowing products to move from concept to release in weeks rather than months. Taroon explains how AI is changing both software development and the structure of engineering teams themselves. We also examine where AI should take ownership of work inside platforms like Jira, where human judgement remains essential, and why successful organisations are treating AI adoption as an ongoing product journey rather than a one-time technology deployment. If your business is looking beyond isolated AI experiments and wondering how to build AI into everyday work, this conversation offers valuable insight into the role context, openness, and organisational change will play in the next generation of enterprise software. As AI becomes part of every workflow, what do you think will become the real competitive advantage: better models, or better organisational knowledge?

Kate Railton, Chief People Officer at Mejuri, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about how Mejuri transitioned from e-commerce into retail, why they've decided to flatten the organization, and the business review cadences and operating model that allow them to move faster.----  Sponsor Links:

Samantha Wong was employee #1 at Blackbird Ventures, the largest shareholder in design software giant Canva and one of Australia's most influential venture capital firms. When Sam joined Blackbird in 2015, the Australian VC ecosystem was in its infancy - a cottage industry with just a few hundred participants. The landscape has changed dramatically over the past decade as companies like Atlassian, Afterpay, SafetyCulture, and Canva have captured investor attention and created a thriving breeding ground for innovation. In this episode of The Rules of Investing, Sam discusses the rapid evolution of the VC landscape in Australia and New Zealand, why backing the right founders is essential to early-stage investing, and the next generation of companies growing at unprecedented rates.

The Atlassian ecosystem is changing faster than ever, and navigating where the platform is headed can be tough for users and enterprises alike. In this episode, we sit down with ecosystem veteran Larry Brock to unpack the massive shifts happening right now inside the Atlassian community and product lineup.We dive deep into the merger of Atlassian Community and University, the rise of the Content Creator Champion, and what the role of a "Regional Director" actually means. Plus, Larry gives us the inside scoop on the legendary #findLarry story and breaks down what the Community Advisory Board (CAB) is working on.But it's not all community talk—we tackle the hard-hitting product questions every enterprise leader is asking: Is Data Center reaching its End of Life (EOL)? What does the end of the Confluence "legacy editor" mean for your teams? And where exactly is Atlassian going next?Whether you are a Jira admin, a project manager, or an enterprise leader trying to get a return on your software investment, this episode is packed with insider knowledge you won't get anywhere else.Thank you to ikuTeam for connecting and collaborating with The Jira Life. https://ikuteam.comThe Jira Life=====================================Having trouble keeping up with when we are live? Sign up for our Atlassian Community Group!https://ace.atlassian.com/the-jira-life/Or Follow us on LinkedIn! / the-jira-life Become a member on YouTube to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/@thejiralife/...Hosts:Alex "Dr. Jira" Ortiz / alexortiz89 / @apetechtechtutorials Rodney "The Jira Guy" Nissen / rgnissen https://thejiraguy.comSarah Wright / satwright Producer:"King Bob" Robert Wen / robert-wen-csm-spc6-a552051 Executive Producer: Lina OrtizMusic provided by Monstercat:=====================================Intro: Nitro Fun - Cheat Codes / monstercat Outro: Fractal - Atrium / monstercatinstinct

We're using AI more than ever. And yet, according to research from Glean's Work AI Institute, only 10% of Australians say AI is significantly improving organisational performance. The truth is that most organisations have done what Dom Price calls the "Woodstock theory" of AI adoption: build it and they will come. Throw the tools out there, hope people figure it out, and wait for the productivity miracle that never quite arrives. In this episode, I sit down with Dom Price, former Atlassian work futurist and one of the sharpest thinkers I know on how organisations actually work. Dom joins me off the back of new Australian research showing the enormous gap between AI adoption and AI impact, and we dig into exactly why that gap exists and what to do about it. If you care about building genuine AI capability in your team rather than just looking busy with AI, this conversation will make you rethink where to start. Dom and I discuss: The "Woodstock theory" of AI adoption, and why most organisations are getting almost nothing back for their investment Botsitting and botshitting: two new terms that capture exactly what's going wrong with how we use AI at work The minus one, zero, plus one framework for figuring out where AI actually belongs in your organisation Why managers are becoming the unexpected bottleneck in an AI-enabled workplace Dom's board of directors inside Claude, and how he uses it to catch his own blind spots The question Dom asks every leadership team that almost no one can answer Key quotes "If you have inefficient and ineffective processes and people systems, and you layer in AI, you are doing stupid things faster." "Most of the businesses I work with in the ASX, their human operating system's Windows 95. So you might have Claude 5.9. You're using Ferrari-style horsepower in your technology, but the way your humans and teams work and meet and make decisions... all those things are Windows 95." Connect with Dom Price on Instagram, LinkedIn and his website. If this conversation sparked something, you'll also love my recent chat with Professor Scott Anthony on how AI has changed the way he approaches problem-solving and his day-to-day workflows. Listen here. My latest book The Energy Game is out on July 7, 2026. You can order a copy here: https://amzn.to/48ID29M Connect with me on the socials: Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanthaimber) Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/amanthai) If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work and live, I write a weekly newsletter where I share practical and simple to apply tips to improve your life. You can sign up for that at https://amantha.substack.com/ Visit https://www.amantha.com/podcast for full show notes from all episodes. Get in touch at amantha@inventium.com.au Credits: Host: Amantha Imber Sound Engineer: The Podcast Butler See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Six months into her first management job, Anu Bharadwaj got the feedback no leader wants to hear: she was too intense, she pushed her team too hard. She was stunned. She was only asking them to do what she would do herself.Anu Bharadwaj began at Microsoft building video games, then made a bold leap to Atlassian in 2014, where she rose from product lead on Jira to COO and then President. Along the way she shaped Team Anywhere, led one of the company's hardest cloud transformations, and kept returning to a single question: how do teams actually work better together?I came to this conversation as someone who made the same early mistake she did. In my first years at Microsoft I was known as Mr Plus, always asking for more, always raising the bar, until coaching taught me the difference between driving people and leading them. Anu and I share a Microsoft DNA, and most of this episode felt like comparing notes.In our conversation, we explore: → Why leading people is never about you, and the manager feedback that taught her the hard way → How a values exercise she runs with every team becomes the real source of psychological safety → Energy management over time management, and why self-care is not selfish → Why an AI rollout fails when leaders treat it as a tools problem instead of a human fear → What an AI-native company actually looks like, and why judgment stays human"When you lead people, it is not about you. It is about them. You want to understand what they want, and take them to a place they want to go." Anu Bharadwaj, former President of AtlassianIf you have ever pushed a team toward your finish line and wondered why they were not following, this conversation will stay with you.RELATED EPISODESPete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks head coach (2021), Learning to "always compete": https://www.buzzsprout.com/1798971/episodes/9268299Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft Chief People Officer (2022), Empowering people to achieve more: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1798971/episodes/10382268 Ranjay Gulati (2023), Creating purpose-driven teams: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1798971/episodes/12903145New here? Subscribe to Positive Leadership & You for one edition a month, written for leaders who want to build companies and communities people thrive in. https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/positive-leadership-you-6970390170017669121/Want to go deeper? Listen to the Positive Leadership Podcast on your favourite platform. 130+ conversations with the leaders, founders and thinkers shaping a more human future of work.

Daniel moderated a live panel at Running Remote 2026 with Carmen Amara (Yelp), Brandon Sammut (Zapier), and Vinícius Coelho (Time Doctor) to discuss how AI is reshaping leadership, management, and career growth. ----  Sponsor Links:

In this session from DX Annual, Rebecca Fitzhugh, Lead Principal Engineer at Atlassian, moderates a panel featuring Nidhi Allipuram, Vice President, Enterprise Developer Experience and Platform at Nationwide, Jai Schniepp, Senior Director, DevX Product Management at Comcast, Brent Foster, Vice President and Head of Architecture and Strategy at TD Bank, and Praveena Patchipulusu, Vice President of Engineering at HPE.Together, they discuss how large enterprises are approaching AI adoption, what it takes to build an AI-first software development lifecycle, and how engineering leaders are balancing speed, security, governance, and developer experience. They also share their perspectives on the changing role of engineers, human accountability, and how organizations can prepare for the future of software engineering.Where to find Rebecca Fitzhugh: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmfitzhugh • X: https://x.com/RebeccaFitzhugh Where to find Jai Schniepp:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaschnieppWhere to find Nidhi Allipuram: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nidhi-allipuramWhere to find Brent Foster: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/engineeringthefuture• Website: https://brentfoster.meWhere to find Praveena Patchipulusu: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveena-patchipulusu-158741In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Intro(02:28) The AI journey across TD Bank, Comcast, and HPE(05:59) Inside Nationwide's AI-assisted development lifecycle(10:04) Reimagining the software development lifecycle with AI(11:32) Security, governance, and human accountability(15:27) Embedding security and guardrails into AI workflows(17:55) How AI is changing the role of an engineer(21:52) What developer experience looks like in the AI era(26:55) What software engineering may look like in 2030(32:47) How to prepare for the AI-driven futureReferenced:• Atlassian• TD Bank• Comcast Corporation• Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)• Nationwide • GitHub Spec Kit• Abi Noda

What happens when a startup operator with leadership experience at Atlassian, Trello, and Typeform decides to tackle one of the most complex challenges in business—hiring?In this episode of The E1B2 Collective Podcast, Anthony Vaughan sits down with Kristen Habacht, CEO of Elly, to explore how AI is transforming recruiting without replacing the human relationships that make great hiring possible.Kristen shares the origin story behind Elly, an AI-native hiring platform built specifically for startups, and explains why the future of recruiting isn't about removing recruiters—it's about empowering them to spend more time where they create the most value.The conversation covers:Why timing is often more important than talent when hiringThe hidden challenges of recruiting sales, marketing, and product leadersHow startups can avoid costly hiring mistakesWhy AI should enhance recruiters, not replace themThe evolution of recruiting from administrative work to strategic talent advisoryBuilding human-centric AI products in a crowded marketThe growing importance of candidate experience and employer brandWhy the future of software may be a combination of AI and human expertiseWhether you're a founder, recruiter, HR leader, or startup operator, this episode offers a practical look at where hiring is headed and how organizations can use AI to make smarter talent decisions.

Ray'n Terry, Chief People Officer at MOO, joined us on The Modern People Leader to discuss why AI should create more space for humanity at work instead of simply increasing productivity. We talked about balancing business performance with employee wellbeing, rethinking performance management in an AI-powered world, and why leaders must intentionally help people reclaim time, creativity, and connection.----  Sponsor Links:

This week the TJL crew sits down with Kayode Faith, a longtime Jira admin who's just launched his own podcast, The New Shape of Work and had one of the TJL crew members as his first guest (guess who!?). Kayode opens up about how a recent summit completely changed his perspective on Forge, and the crew swaps stories about the unexpected professional relationships and friendships that come out of these events.From there, the conversation turns reflective: Kayode looks back at how the Atlassian ecosystem has evolved over his six years as a Jira admin, and shares what he's most excited about going forward — starting with never having to do another nerve-wracking Jira Data Center upgrade again. The crew also digs into the real-world frustrations of working in this space, including Kayode's experience supporting a nonprofit client with little to no budget for essential apps, including backup solutions for Jira and Confluence Cloud.Expect candid stories, shared scars, and plenty of laughs as the crew welcomes a fellow admin (and fellow podcaster) into the fold.Thank you to ikuTeam for connecting and collaborating with The Jira Life. https://ikuteam.comThe Jira Life=====================================Having trouble keeping up with when we are live? Sign up for our Atlassian Community Group!https://ace.atlassian.com/the-jira-life/Or Follow us on LinkedIn!  / the-jira-life  Become a member on YouTube to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/@thejiralife/...Hosts:Alex "Dr. Jira" OrtizRodney "The Jira Guy" NissenSarah Wright"King Bob" Robert WenLina Ortiz   / alexortiz89     / @apetechtechtutorials     / rgnissen  https://thejiraguy.com   / satwright   Producer:   / robert-wen-csm-spc6-a552051  Executive Producer: Music provided by Monstercat:=====================================Intro: Nitro Fun - Cheat Codes   / monstercat  Outro: Fractal - Atrium   / monstercatinstinct  

International law enforcement disrupts the SocGholish botnet. The UK's cyber chief says cybersecurity is a contest, not a risk register. Ukraine joins the EU's cyber reserve. The Gentlemen gang sharpens its ransomware toolkit. A WordPress supply chain attack spreads malware. Critical patches land from F5, Atlassian, and Splunk. Agentjacking targets AI coding assistants. And Kodak confirms a breach claimed by ShinyHunters. Our guest is Ben Yelin from University of Maryland Center for Cyber Health and Hazard Strategies on the failure of FISA section 702 to reauthorize. Criminal coders face automation anxiety. Remember to leave us a 5-star rating and review in your favorite podcast app. Miss an episode? Sign-up for our daily intelligence roundup, Daily Briefing, and you'll never miss a beat. And be sure to follow CyberWire Daily on LinkedIn. CyberWire Guest Today we are joined by Ben Yelin from University of Maryland Center for Cyber Health and Hazard Strategies, and coh-host of Caveat, as he discusses the failure of FISA section 702 to reauthorize. Selected Reading Police cleans nearly 15,000 SocGholish-infected sites tied to Evil Corp (Bleeping Computer) Hostile States Behind 75% of Cyber-Attacks on UK CNI, NCSC Warns (Infosecurity Magazine) Cyberspace Locked in a Nation-State Contest, Says NCSC CEO (BankInfo Security) EU grants Ukraine access to cybersecurity reserve for major attacks (The Record) Killing me gently: Inside Gentlemen's EDR killer framework (ESET) ShapedPlugin update flow hacked to infect WordPress sites (Bleeping Computer) F5 issues out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities (Bleeping Computer) Atlassian, Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek) Agentjacking: Researchers Show How One Fake Bug Report Can Hijack AI Coding Agents (HackRead) Kodak Admits Data Breach After ShinyHunters Hack Claims (SecurityWeek) Cybercriminals Are Worried About AI Taking Their Jobs Too (Infosecurity Magazine) Share your feedback. What do you think about CyberWire Daily? Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts with us by completing our brief listener survey. Thank you for helping us continue to improve our show. Want to hear your company in the show? N2K CyberWire helps you reach the industry's most influential leaders and operators, while building visibility, authority, and connectivity across the cybersecurity community. Learn more at sponsor.thecyberwire.com. The CyberWire is a production of N2K Networks, your source for strategic workforce intelligence. © N2K Networks, Inc. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every brand team is being handed AI tools and told to do more with less. What they're not being told is that without taste and a real idea, the output is just sophisticated noise at scale.Matt Scribner is a growth designer at Atlassian — a company whose brand touches tens of thousands of visitors a week — and he's been inside the AI-enabled design workflow longer than most. His take isn't a sales pitch for the tools or a doomsday headline about job loss. It's something more useful: an honest account of where AI actually helps, where it quietly fails, and why the designers who thrive won't be the ones who prompt the best.We also cover:AI can get you to 60% — but if you couldn't get past 60% without it, you're not getting past it with it eitherWe're heading toward a "singularity of design" where everything starts looking the same, and the only antidote is taste you built before the tools existedThe Arts and Crafts movement followed the Industrial Revolution for a reason — and the same correction is coming for brand

This is a special episode reflecting on my experience at AccelerateOTT and Ottawa Conversations with Sonya Shorey (Invest Ottawa), Aydin Mirzaee (Fellow.ai), Ashley Faus (Atlassian), and Sarah Sedgman (LearnExperts) Innovation Week, a city-wide celebration of innovation featuring events across technology, healthcare, defence, the arts, entrepreneurship, and much more. At the center of the week is AccelerateOTT, Ottawa's flagship entrepreneurship conference. This year's theme, Built for the Age of AI, brought together founders, investors, and innovators for a full day of practical insights, honest conversations, and meaningful connections about building and growing in an AI-driven world. Both AccelerateOTT and Ottawa Innovation Week are led by Invest Ottawa, which is the lead economic development agency for Canada's capital. In this episode, I sit down with Sonya Shorey, President and CEO of Invest Ottawa, to discuss some of the highlights from the week and what they mean for founders, businesses, and the future of innovation in Ottawa. As I reflected on the conversations, three themes stood out. First, AI is no longer an experiment, it's a transformation. Organizations are rethinking products, workflows, and entire business models. Second, while technology is advancing rapidly, success remains deeply human. Relationships, trust, community, and collaboration were recurring themes throughout the week. And third, innovation happens at the intersections, when different industries, disciplines, and perspectives come together to create something new. In addition to my conversation with Sonya, you'll hear three short interviews recorded on the conference floor immediately after the speakers' sessions, so please forgive the lively background noise. You'll hear from Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and co-founder of Fellow, on transforming a company for the AI era and why waiting for certainty often means moving too late. You'll also hear from Ashley Faus, Head of Lifecycle Marketing at Atlassian and author of Human-Centered Marketing, on building trust, finding your voice, and creating lasting relationships in the age of AI. And finally, Sarah Sedgman, CEO of LearnExperts, shares why staying closely connected to your customers is one of the best ways to uncover new opportunities for growth and innovation. Together, these conversations highlight a community embracing technological change while staying grounded in what matters most: people, relationships, and continuous learning. Interviews: (05:15) Sonya Shorey, President and CEO of Invest Ottawa (27:45) Aydin Mirzaee, CEO and co-founder of Fellow (39:15) Ashley Faus, Head of Lifecycle Marketing at Atlassian and author of Human-Centered Marketing: How to Connect with Audiences in the Age of AI (45:45) Sarah Sedgman, CEO of LearnExperts

#355: Picture your engineering team a year from now. A coding agent doing the coding. A testing agent on tests. A security agent on security. An infrastructure agent on infrastructure. All of them wired into GitHub and Jira, all of them working right alongside the humans. Not science fiction either - Atlassian and GitHub are already shipping these features. So out come the stats everyone loves to quote. AI code introduces 1.7 times more issues. Half of it ships with security holes. Code duplication is through the roof. AI-assisted PRs take four to five times longer to review. The response to most of it: so what? If you have a way to detect the issue and feed it back, that is just the SDLC doing its job. Couldn't care less if it is 1.7x or 50x more issues - what matters is what is left at the end, per feature shipped. Security holes? You have scanners. Detect, fix, ship. The only real problem is when you skip the detection or sit on the fix for months, and that has nothing to do with AI. Here is the one stat that actually sticks: PR reviews backing up. Speed up coding and leave everything downstream at human speed, and you have not sped up delivery - you have just moved the pile from Jira tickets to pull requests. The review pipeline was built for human speed, and now it is the bottleneck. The blunt fix: stop letting AI write 10,000-line PRs, work in smaller chunks, and accept that the job is about to get mentally harder. Delegate the tedious work and what is left is the demanding work - architecture, taste, is this even the feature we should ship. The silly stuff, does every function have a comment, is it camel case, goes to the machine. Spend your time there and you are wasting your talent. Offshoring never worked when the only goal was cheaper - chase the cheapest engineers, then chase even cheaper ones, and you end up dragging the work back in house. Same trap with AI. Offshore to Opus, then Sonnet, then Haiku, then Llama on a laptop. If cheaper is your primary motivation, you are doing it wrong. The win is qualitative, not the price tag. Where does it land? Three people per product, end to end - frontend, backend, database, deployments. Augmented at every stage, not autonomous. A human still pushes the final button to prod, the way you never let a Jenkins pipeline deploy straight to production without a check. Full autonomy is coming the way self-driving cars came: not in a year, not everywhere at once, and not by flipping it on at 4pm on a Friday. Even when the technology is ready, you are not. And if you think none of this touches your job, there is a story here about a textile factory built in the eighties that ran on five people. Knowledge work is next. The only exception is a monopoly, and you probably do not have one.   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

Amy Reichanadter, Chief People Officer at Databricks, joined us on The Modern People Leader to discuss her upskilling journey throughout her career, creating consumer-grade employee experiences, and leading through rapid technological change. ----  Sponsor Links:

Some of the best conversations start at a dinner table.Last September, host Langston Clark welcomed product leaders and authors Oji and Ezinne Udezue into his San Antonio home for an intimate gathering. One of the guests that evening was Elisa Cuellar — a listener, entrepreneur, and founder of StorieCue — who walked away from that dinner inspired to stop sitting on her own big idea. That night lit a spark. This episode is the recorded continuation of that conversation.Oji, a former Chief Product Officer at Twitter, Calendly, and Atlassian, and managing partner of the Kernel Fund, and Ezinne, who has driven enterprise transformation at T-Mobile, Discovery Communications, Procore, and WP Engine, are the co-authors of Building Rocketships: Product Management for High Growth Companies. Together, they walk us through what separates builders who scale from those who stall — and why the fundamentals of product thinking matter now more than ever. With Elisa serving as guest co-host, the trio explores customer listening, the Shipyard Model of innovation, AI's role in product development, and what it means to build rocket ships when the infrastructure — and the capital — looks completely different than Silicon Valley. Whether you're a solo founder, a product leader, or someone who knows they have a rocket ship inside of them and just hasn't launched yet — this episode is for you. Topics covered: product management, startup growth strategy, AI tools for founders, customer listening, Shipyard Model, Kernel Fund, innovation in Africa, venture capital in emerging markets, product-market fit, Black tech leadership, entrepreneurship.Support the showhttps://www.patreon.com/c/EA_BookClub

Tired vs. Wired: $4 Trillion in IPOs Coming, $100B in M&A, and Why the SaaSpocalypse is Over The public markets spent the last twelve months telling you B2B software was finished. Stocks down 60 to 70 percent. PE firms buying nobody. For the first time in history, software trading at a discount to the S&P 500. And at the exact same moment, Anthropic is projecting $50 billion in revenue, Cursor is getting acquired for $60 billion, and SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Databricks are about to generate more market value than every other IPO since 2000 combined. Both things are true - and which one defines your next 18 months depends entirely on one question: are you tired or are you wired? In this episode, SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin calls the market as he sees it, names who is winning and who is pretending, and makes the case that the Cambrian explosion in B2B is just getting started. You'll learn: Why the SaaSpocalypse was never about B2B dying - it was about pre-AI software dying - and what the Palantir, Twilio, and Atlassian re-acceleration stories actually tell you The four categories every B2B company falls into right now, and why category four founders need to stop pretending the recovery is coming on its own Why vibe coding your CRM is dead as a concept, and what "putting deals on your calendar" actually means as a product strategy Why your biggest near-term competitive edge might be two days of engineering work - making your API agent-friendly before your competitors do What SaaStr's own journey from 20 humans to 3 humans and 21 agents teaches you about consistency as the only real cheat code in agents This is for you if: Your growth has slowed and you are not sure whether it is a market problem or a you problem - this session will help you figure out which You are a founder or exec who has been in the "AI is coming" conversation for a year but has not yet seen it show up in your revenue You want the unfiltered version of where B2B is headed in the next 18 months, including the parts most people are too polite to say out loud

RJ Scaringe is the founder and CEO of Rivian Automotive. Host Jeff Berman digs into how Scaringe thinks about competing with Tesla, the hard won lessons of building a company that makes both vehicles and software, and how the company is scaling to fuel the highly anticipated launch of its newest electric vehicle: The R2.This Masters of Scale Live event, sponsored by Atlassian, was recorded at Atlassian Team 2026 in Anaheim.Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https://mastersofscale.com/subscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Cameron Price, Head of People & Talent at Medium, joined us on The Modern People Leader to discuss how people teams can lead AI change management through trust, curiosity, and human-centered design. We talked about AI fluency, balancing innovation with authenticity, measuring employee sentiment around AI adoption, and why humans-first leadership matters more than ever. ----  Sponsor Links:

Abi Noda is joined live at DX Annual by three engineering leaders shaping AI adoption at scale: Tim Bozarth, Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's CoreAI division; Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password; and Taroon Mandhana, CTO of AI and Teamwork at Atlassian. Together, they discuss how AI is changing engineering organizations, from team structures and planning cycles to hiring, governance, and measurement.The panel explores how the profile of a great engineer is evolving, why smaller cross-functional teams are becoming more effective, and what happens when product managers, designers, and customer support teams start contributing code. They also share why they are encouraging AI adoption through enablement, training, and local champions rather than mandates, and how AI is shifting more of the software development lifecycle toward planning and validation.Finally, they discuss where human judgment remains essential, how to measure adoption and manage token usage, and how to connect AI investments to business outcomes while preserving room for experimentation and learning.Where to find Nancy Wang: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wangnancyWhere to find Taroon Mandhana:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taroonmWhere to find Tim Bozarth: • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tbozarthWhere to find Abi Noda:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abinoda In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Intro(01:08) Introducing the panelists(02:16) AI's impact on engineering team structures and planning cycles(05:00) How the role of the engineer is changing and what makes a great engineer(10:11) The opportunities and challenges of non-engineers writing code(15:26) Encouraging AI adoption without mandating it(21:25) What an AI-native SDLC looks like and why human judgment still matters(30:56) Measuring AI adoption, token usage, and ROI(37:06) How to tie AI investments to business outcomesReferenced:• DX Core 4 Productivity Framework• Microsoft • 1Password• Atlassian• Jira• Confluence• Loom• Rovo • Amazon Operating Cadence - Working Backwards

Nir Leibovich, Product Executive at QuickBooks Workforce, joined us on The Modern People Leader to discuss why HR and finance teams struggle when data lives in silos and how unified systems create better business decisions. Downloadable PDF with top takeaways: https://modernpeopleleader.kit.com/episode306----  Sponsor Links:

This week's Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with guests Robb Dunewood, host, Daily Tech News Show, and David Cross, CISO, Atlassian. Get the show notes here. Missed the live show? Check it out on YouTube. The Department of Know is live every Friday at 4:00 p.m. ET. Join us each week by registering for the open discussion at CISOSeries.com. Your team just added its 67th AI tool. And unfortunately, also your 67th security blind spot. The good news: The Vanta Agent works like a GRC engineer in the background, finding every app your team uses, scoring the risk, and drafting fixes for you. Vanta is the platform used by over sixteen thousand fast-moving companies like Ramp, Cursor, and Harvey who are shaping the future with AI, AND staying ahead of AI risk. Get started at vanta.com/headlines. 

The thing everyone agrees is the right way to work has quietly produced some of the worst corporate ethics violations in modern history.Product Manager Brian Orlando and Enterprise Business Agility Leader Om Patel discuss and debate how outcome-based goals can and often do go catastrophically wrong - from Facebook to Wells Fargo - and introduce a stakeholder outcome mapping tool you can use immediately.Listen or watch to understand:How outcome-based OKRs quietly enable the worst ethics failuresThe invisible gorilla experiment which illustrates how goals function as mental blindersThe headlines test for stress-testing your goalsA stakeholder outcome mapping exercise to surface hidden tradeoffsWhy the system doesn't need evil people - just good people with bad incentivesThis podcast is for anyone who is looking to understand how the efforts of well-meaning and "not-evil" people can and often does go off the rails. It may also be tangentially useful to leaders who are tired of pretending outcome goals are automatically ethical... but you first must WANT to change....and if you do like this one, get ready for a Part 2 next where we'll discuss WHY the damage from outcome-based goals is often invisible until it's too late, why organizations systematically destroy whistleblowers, and what Deming figured out decades ago that the tech industry still ignores!#ProductEthics #OKRs #ProductManagementState of Product 2026 by Atlassian, Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook's Ethical Failures Are Not a Bug They Are a Feature by Betty (2021), Invisible Gorilla Experiment, Locke and Latham Goal Setting Theory, DemingLINKSYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@arguingagileSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/362QvYORmtZRKAeTAE57v3Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agile-podcast/id1568557596INTRO MUSICToronto Is My BeatBy Whitewolf (Source: https://ccmixter.org/files/whitewolf225/60181)CC BY 4.0 DEED (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)

Amy Schwartz, Chief People Officer at Wiz, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why HR alone can't create a high-performance culture, why relationships and influence matter more than HR systems, and why "picking up the trash" - a leadership philosophy she picked up working in casinos - has stuck with her ever since.----  Sponsor Links:

Are you looking to save time, make money, and start winning with less risk? Then head to https://www.ovtlyr.com.Learn more about OVTLYR: https://youtu.be/TUCbD5KovlcEverybody's been talking about AI replacing software companies.Meanwhile, software stocks have been quietly ripping higher.And that's exactly what we're diving into today.A few weeks ago, names like ServiceNow looked completely broken. People were dumping software stocks left and right, convinced AI was about to make them irrelevant. Then something changed. The selling stopped. The buyers stepped in. And suddenly some of these stocks started exploding higher.In this video, we're looking at the software sector comeback, where the biggest opportunities may still be hiding, and why money is rotating back into tech right now. We also break down fresh OVTLYR buy and sell signals on stocks like ServiceNow, SAP, Atlassian, Palantir, Super Micro Computer, IonQ, NVIDIA, Micron, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, HP, Intel, and more.✅ Why software stocks are suddenly leading the market✅ The buy signals showing up across tech✅ Stocks that may be getting too crowded✅ Key resistance levels traders should watch✅ Where the best risk-to-reward setups may be formingThe biggest money isn't made chasing headlines.It's made by spotting trends before everybody else notices them.Subscribe to OVTLYR for disciplined trading strategies that actually make sense.

Laura Tomaino, Chief People Officer at Glooko, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why “People-First” leadership feels harder in 2026 and what it actually looks like to live up to that today.----  Sponsor Links:

Hilary Dubin is co-CEO and head of Jones' digital product & behavioral support program. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania magna cum laude, majoring in cognitive science with a concentration in computation and cognition, an honors thesis on the effects of gender, realism, and role of virtual agents, and a minor from Wharton in consumer psychology.  She worked in David Brainard's visual neuroscience lab for 3 years and published 4 papers and supplementary materials on illumination discrimination (color perception). After Penn, she was selected as one of ten Americans to be a Ventures Fellow in the Excel Ventures incubator program in Tel Aviv, and continued on to be the inaugural member, and later program lead, of the US Associate Product Manager Program at Atlassian.  She worked as a product manager at Atlassian for 5 years, ultimately as Head of Confluence Editions & Admin Experience where she launched Confluence Premium & Free into multi-million dollar product offerings with 2M+ users. She hired & managed two PMs and lead a team of over 30 developers.  Prior to founding Jones, she and Caroline founded Cozier together, a sleep & loungewear brand designing ethical, effortlessly chic garments for every/body. Hilary started vaping casually in 2017 when the JUUL seemed relatively harmless and fun.  When the world went on lockdown in 2020, her casual vaping habit became a daily crutch for coping with stress and working from home. After over a year of unsuccessful cold-turkey quit attempts, she finally kicked her vaping habit in 2022 when Caroline suggested she try NRT.  Outside of work, Hilary loves hiking, backcountry skiing, trying to find the best burger in NYC, and playing with other people's dogs. In This Conversation We Discuss: [00:00] Intro [02:34] Creating products from personal pain points [06:52] Sponsor: Klaviyo  [08:59] Meeting potential customers where they are [10:47] Adapting products based on user feedback [13:48] Testing market demand with waitlists [16:02] Sponsor: Electric Eye [17:10] Maximizing personal networks for growth [18:34] Gathering behavioral data in early days [19:52] Callouts [20:02] Launching a product to engaged audiences  [22:09] Sponsor: Intelligems [24:09] Pivoting marketing to bridge early limitations [26:24] Driving organic traffic with relatable content  [30:33] Adding modern value to traditional products Resources: Subscribe to Honest Ecommerce on Youtube Nicotime mints and social app to quit vaping quitwithjones.com/ Follow Hilary Dubin linkedin.com/in/hilary-dubin-374156b4/ Follow Caroline Vasquez Huber linkedin.com/in/caroline-vasquez-huber Book a demo today at intelligems.io/ Schedule an intro call with one of our experts electriceye.io/connect Get your free demo klaviyo.com/honest If you're enjoying the show, we'd love it if you left Honest Ecommerce a review on Apple Podcasts. It makes a huge impact on the success of the podcast, and we love reading every one of your reviews!

Jevan Lenox, Chief People Officer at Writer, joined us on The Modern People Leader. We talked about why AI adoption alone is not enough, how companies can use “directed innovation” to drive real business outcomes with AI, and what high performance looks like in the AI era.----  Sponsor Links:

In this episode, I sit down with three senior product leaders who just came through the senior job search in this market: Dana Ingraham from Harvey, Briana Ings from Atlassian, and Pei-Chin Wang, who's founding her own company. While the search itself continues to be exhausting, I was surprised to learn that everything else has changed: the playbook is completely out of date, in at least ten different ways. All three reported feeling something I've started calling smiling exhaustion: working hard, going long, and surprised by how good it feels. If you're a senior leader, sitting in a stable role debating a move, weighing how you can ride the AI shift, or quietly wondering if founding finally belongs on your career path, this conversation is for you.Key topics:• How AI agents have flipped the first year at a new role from headwind to tailwind, and are even bringing joy to the first year of a new role• The new founding math: fast, fun, and skill-additive, with a much lower downside than it used to be• How to navigate the job search when you don't live in San Francisco—and remote jobs are dwindling• Why structured AI learning is the wrong move, and what to build instead, so your fluency is hard to fake• How to signal hard boundaries to a new boss, and differentiate between real respect and performative virtue-signalling• Why holding your professional identity loosely matters when the role of senior leader is getting reformatted in real timeReferenced:• Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/• Atlassian: https://www.atlassian.com• Claude Code: https://claude.com/product/claude-code• Harvey: https://www.harvey.ai• Loom: https://www.loom.com• Modern Animal: https://themodernanimal.comBrought to you by:• Guru—Trusted knowledge for every AI tool and team: https://www.getguru.com/?utm_source=the-skip&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=skip-promo• Customer.io—The customer engagement platform for human messaging: http://customer.io/skipWhere to find Nikhyl• Twitter/X• LinkedInWhere to find Dana• LinkedInWhere to find Briana• LinkedInWhere to find Pei-Chin• LinkedInJoin The Skip• Skip Coach• Skip CommunityFind The Skip• Website• Substack• YouTube• Spotify• Apple PodcastsTimestamps:00:00 Introduction04:08 Welcome, and why this is the second job-search postmortem05:50 Meet Dana, Briana, and Pei-Chin06:15 What the "smiling exhaustion" state is09:58 Three career transitions, three different triggers15:26 Has founding become a must-have on the modern career path?17:09 Why "AI company" doesn't need to be a hard filter21:43 The new founding math: Three-month traction windows and "everyone codes"26:16 How AI agents flipped onboarding from headwind to tailwind31:33 How to navigate the decline of remote-friendly roles36:27 Setting hard family boundaries in the 996-company era40:47 How proactive do senior leaders need to be to build their role pipeline?43:10 Standing out to recruiters when your CV lacks traditional experience47:43 Discovering Claude Code: "I felt like a sorcerer"53:21 Why structured AI learning isn't necessary57:21 When your resume doesn't fit the pattern, teach the interviewer58:48 Closing wisdom: hold your identity loosely This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theskip.substack.com

What happens when AI intelligence becomes commoditized? That is the question sitting at the heart of this episode recorded live at Team '26 in Anaheim, where I sat down with Sherif Mansour to unpack one of the biggest shifts happening in enterprise technology right now. For years, the AI conversation has focused on models, prompts, and raw capability. But according to Sherif, the real competitive advantage may no longer come from the intelligence itself. It comes from context. The workflows, relationships, decisions, knowledge, and operational history that exist inside an organization. In this conversation, Sherif takes me deep inside Atlassian's biggest AI announcements around Rovo, Teamwork Graph, AI-powered workflows, and the company's broader vision for what happens when AI moves beyond isolated copilots and starts operating across the flow of work itself. We explore why Atlassian believes organizational context is becoming the defining moat in enterprise AI, why the company is opening Teamwork Graph through MCP and external integrations, and how the industry is rapidly shifting from AI experimentation toward real operational execution. Sherif also myth busts some of the biggest misconceptions surrounding AI adoption today. We discuss the difference between automation and orchestration, why humans still remain central to decision-making, and how enterprises can avoid adding complexity while still moving quickly in the AI era. Along the way, we discuss real-world examples ranging from Formula One race strategy and procurement workflows through to AI-powered onboarding, engineering productivity, and the growing role of agentic systems inside large organizations. One of the most fascinating parts of the discussion centers around the evolution of enterprise software itself. Atlassian no longer sees AI as a standalone assistant sitting in a chat window. Instead, the vision is for AI to become deeply embedded into workflows, helping teams coordinate work, surface insights, and accelerate decision-making in real time. Sherif also shares why he believes the next major platform battle will not be over who owns the smartest AI model, but over who owns the operational context surrounding that intelligence. If you're trying to separate real enterprise AI progress from the hype cycle, this episode offers a thoughtful and refreshingly honest look at where things may actually be heading next. As always, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Is organizational context becoming the real competitive advantage in AI? And how prepared is your business for a future where humans and AI agents increasingly work side by side? Please check the partners of the Tech Tech Talks Network Learn more about the NordLayer Browser Visit Denodo.com

What happens when AI stops being a feature and starts reshaping the very craft of design itself? Live from, I sat down with Charlie Sutton for a conversation that went far beyond product interfaces and pixels. As Atlassian unveiled its latest AI ambitions around agents, context, and the Teamwork Graph, Charlie offered a fascinating look at the human side of that transformation and why design may become even more important as AI becomes embedded into the way we work. Charlie shared how Atlassian approaches design at scale across products like Jira, Confluence, Loom, and Rovo, explaining why every interaction should feel intentional and cohesive, even when built by hundreds of people across dozens of teams. But this conversation quickly moved into much bigger territory. We explored how AI is changing the relationship between designers, developers, and business teams, and why the traditional barriers between idea and execution are rapidly disappearing. One of the most thought-provoking parts of the discussion centered around democratization. Charlie argued that while AI tools have dramatically lowered the floor for creativity, they have also raised the ceiling for what users now expect from software experiences. Anyone can prototype an app today, but expectations around quality, coherence, trust, and usability are climbing just as quickly. We also unpacked the growing shift from prompting AI to delegating work to AI agents. Charlie explained why assigning work to agents increasingly resembles managing human teammates, from defining goals and success criteria to understanding strengths, limitations, and context. That naturally led us into a deeper conversation about trust, transparency, and why users must always feel they can "pop the bonnet" and understand what AI systems are doing on their behalf. Another major theme throughout the episode was context. Charlie shared why Atlassian sees organizational context as one of the defining challenges of the AI era and how the Teamwork Graph is helping connect people, projects, conversations, and knowledge across the company. He compared this moment to the first time many of us used Google search and suddenly realized the scale of what was possible. We also discussed how AI adoption is unfolding differently from previous technology waves. Instead of adoption trickling down from hardcore technical users, Charlie is seeing rapid experimentation from marketing, HR, and design teams looking to reduce repetitive work and communicate ideas more effectively. Even his own mother, he joked, has become an AI power user before he has. From AltaVista nostalgia and Ask Jeeves memories to serious conversations about the future of human creativity, this episode captures a rare and honest perspective on where design, collaboration, and AI may be heading next. How will organizations balance personalization with shared experiences as AI becomes embedded into every workflow, and what role will human creativity play when everyone suddenly has access to the same powerful tools? Please check the partners of the Tech Tech Talks Network Learn more about the NordLayer Browser Visit Denodo.com

How did nine rejection letters and “boring” data lead to “the biggest transformation in sport”? Americans might know Formula One Racing from the hit Netflix show “Drive to Survive.” But F1 has long been a fan favorite in Britain and Europe. Today’s guest, team principal James Vowles, sits down with Oz to discuss how he’s bringing his team, Atlassian Williams F1 Team, from a recent slump into the Top 5. His process involves being “data-rich”, pushing his team to the brink, and utilizing AI and technology to get that elusive tenth of a second in speed. Additional Reading: ‘Get rid of the battery’: F1 under increasing pressure to make more changes to engine rules | Formula One 2026 | The Guardian Formula One Went Green—and It’s Driving Everyone Crazy | WSJ EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/techstuff Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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