Core themes of recent posts

What are the core themes of what you’ve been publishing?

I thought I’d check some of my posts for the past few years.

Here is what I did … it’s simple and an exercise you can replicate for any social media (LinkedIn in my case):

• Download your posts (“shares” on LinkedIn)
• Upload the content to an AI engine of your choice
• Ask for theme analysis and grouping

I had Grok analyze a few years of my LI posts … below are the results (had to be edited to fit within LinkedIn post length limits). The AI summary was reasonably accurate with a just a few misses here and there”

1. The Art of Leadership in Uncertain Times
   • Focus: Leadership strategies, responsibilities, and mindset shifts in the face of crises, uncertainty, and change. Leadership is a recurring theme, with emphasis on adaptability, feedback, and resilience—key traits for navigating today’s volatile world.
   • Example Posts:
     • 3/2/2022: Observing leaders during crises as a learning tool.
     • 2/23/2022: Early warning signs of work going astray.
     • 2/1/2022: Addressing fear as a leader.
2. AI: Opportunity, Risk, and the Human Edge
   • Focus: The role of AI in business and the irreplaceable human elements it cannot replicate.
   • Example Posts:
     • 4/24/2024: Salieri vs. Mozart analogy—AI as a technical tool needing human artistry.
     • 5/24/2024: AI replacing executive jobs—questioning its limits.
3. Breaking the Industrial Mindset: Knowledge Work Reimagined
   • Focus: Critiques of industrial-era practices in modern knowledge work and suggestions for improvement.
   • Example Posts:
     • 3/14/2025: The persistence of “fast-paced” job descriptions and the “always busy” trap.
     • 11/16/2022: Avoiding destructive efficiency.
     • 6/15/2022: Applying 80/20 to employee performance management.
4. The Power of Communication: Bridging Gaps and Building Trust
   • Focus: The critical role of effective communication in business success, with examples of failures and solutions.
   • Example Posts:
     • 6/24/2024: Language and thinking skills in customer service.
     • 4/6/2022: The simplest change management tool: a shared glossary.
5. Change as Opportunity: Thriving Amid Uncertainty
   • Focus: Embracing inevitable uncertainty and change as drivers of innovation and competitive advantage if approached proactively.
   • Example Posts:
     • 3/3/2025: Uncertainty as a friend in strategy, enemy in execution.
     • 11/11/2020: Innovating forward instead of waiting for “normal.”
6. The Productivity Paradox: Doing Less to Achieve More
   • Focus: Rethinking productivity beyond busyness and mere activity.
   • Example Posts:
     • 2/20/2024: 4D prioritization (dump, delay, delegate, do) with AI.
     • 7/24/2024: 10X productivity—myth or reality, and its implications.
7. Building Teams That Win
   • Focus: The centrality of people management, development, and culture in organizational success.
   • Example Posts:
     • 2/9/2022: Winning the talent war by improving people management.
     • 11/14/2023: Organizational development as key to growth.
     • 9/23/2022: The magic of peer mentoring.
8. Navigating the Future: Strategy in a Digital Age
   • Focus: Strategic insights for staying competitive.
   • Example Posts:
     • 10/25/2024: Assessing organizational capability to navigate change and economic turbulence
     • 3/7/2025: Recession-proofing your company.
     • 11/15/2023: Signs your company isn’t acting fast enough.

You can find many of the posts on this website as well … look in the post list or use the search function.