Lead with AI stress-free
Practical AI workflows for managers: deploy Monday, lead better by Friday.
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Every few months, a senior director shows up in a planning meeting with a new mandate.
This year it’s AI.
AI is not useless but I see a big problem with the narrative around it - nobody in your org knows about what it actually takes to make it useful for a manager.
Lack of AI understanding yields unclear AI adoption strategy. Unclear AI adoption strategy shifts the burden to you - the manager. More responsibility is the last thing you need in the industry, that is requiring more productivity, quicker time-to-impact, more revenue.
You are under pressure.
I’m no exception to that - I worry about my future, too.
“What will I be doing a year from now?
How will my job change?“
…are the questions I ask myself daily.
Lack of actual vision for the “shape of the leader” in the new AI-era had me searching for answers on my own. I found one annoying, repetitive task that I decided to tackle with AI - automate my weekly status reports.
I spent eight hours building my first agentic workflow (you’re reading it correctly: eight hours!). And when it finally ran, I immediately thought: this was way too difficult to pull off.
Isn’t AI actually supposed to help get there quicker? That simple thing took so much effort. Nevertheless, I kept going - and I will keep going - because I knew that there has to be a much easier way to efficiently use AI, so that I have more time to focus on leadership.
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I write with three things in mind:
Staying calm, thinking deeply, and acting deliberately. AI is loud; it’s easy to binge the latest feed instead of listening to yourself.
There’s no one-size-fits-all AI workflow for accomplishing your goals. Anyone selling one is wrong. If it isn’t personal, it’s noise.
AI should elevate judgement, not output. Better judgement leads to sharper leadership.
This publication runs on a two-post-per-week rhythm.
Mondays: what I accomplished that week using AI, and how I got there. Real outcomes, real tradeoffs, and an honest answer on whether it was worth the effort.
Thursdays: the workflow behind it. Actual prompts, setups, and agent logic you can deploy in your own work.
Mondays give you the what. Thursdays give you the how… and something concrete to bring to your next leadership review.
The goal here is to help you lead with AI stress-free.
There’s a version of AI adoption that just makes you faster at admin. And there’s a version that gets the right things off your plate entirely - status reports, 1:1 prep, meeting summaries - so your mental energy goes to the work that actually requires a human.
That second version is harder to find and that’s what this publication is for.
I’m Leszek. Senior EM working with Google in Zurich. 15+ years writing software, 5+ managing teams. I scaled my team from 3 to 20 engineers. Dad and mountain biker.
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