The Leverage Point
Exploring the leverage points in AI, automation, and culture, that free mission-driven teams to do their best work.
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Who Played With Lego as a Kid? (opens the original)
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My favourite Lego set was a pirate ship. I built it on the floor of my room, or in the lounge when I could get away with it, and what I loved about it wasn’t the size or the sails. It was everything hidden inside. Trapdoors. A monkey. Cannons that actually fired. You only found half of it by poking around.When it was finished, it went on display in my room, and it stayed a pirate ship. I wasn’t the kid who tipped the box out and turned it into a spaceship. I liked the kit. I liked what it gave m
My favourite automation ends with a phone call (opens the original)
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One of my favourite automations ends with someone picking up the phone.I’ve set versions of it up for a few organisations. When a donation comes through their donation platform, the automation checks a couple of things.Thanks for reading The Leverage Point! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="button primary" type="submit" value="
Chat is stage one (opens the original)
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The first is efficiency. Work you already do, done faster. Drafting the email. Summarising the meeting notes. Turning a transcript into action items and an agenda. This is real value and I would never talk anyone out of it. Every hour you claw back is an hour you spend on work you actually care about instead of work you have to do.The second is imagination. Work that was not possible for you six months ago. Not faster. Possible.Hardly anyone is in the second bucket.I ran a session for an organis
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