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  • Why AI Isn’t Making Companies Faster

    Why AI Isn’t Making Companies Faster
    Aug 31 2026
    Why AI Isn’t Making Companies Faster Why AI isn’t making companies faster? Common question I get these days, and the answer isn’t that mysterious. Everybody bought the tools, and ran the pilots, but nothing sped up. That doesn’t mean the money was wasted, and it doesn’t mean AI is a fraud. AI is an amplifier. What it amplified is a problem we had ten years ago and still haven’t addressed. The gap between a decision and a customer There’s a lag between the moment an executive team decides something and the moment a customer actually feels it…the moment it converts to revenue, or to something valuable. So ask yourself this question – “When did your company last make a real decision? And how long before anyone outside the building noticed?” Most leaders can’t answer that. That’s the whole problem, and it’s the reason AI isn’t making companies faster no matter how much they’re investing right now. It was never the technology Agile is supposedly finished. Has been for a few years now. And yet…lack of agility still shows up in the top five concerns CEOs report every year. They don’t call it agile. They call it speed-to-market, nimbleness, adaptability…the ability to respond when the market moves. Meanwhile every organization I know is being asked to do the impossible. Extract more value from fewer people. Make cuts where no cuts remain. Faster and cheaper while somehow getting better. That runs straight into what I learned in my project management days — the holy triangle of budget, time and scope. You don’t get all three. And you certainly don’t cut one and keep quality where it was. The practical maximum Here’s where it actually stops. Here’s why AI isn’t making companies faster. Resistance to change. Risk aversion. No autonomy. Nobody is allowed to make the call. Fear. Those human factors combine into a practical maximum, and no amount of technology can help you move past it. Give someone a goal tied to their job, their pay and their longevity, and then deny them the authority to make trade-offs, to negotiate, to prioritize. They disengage. They learn to be helpless. Losing control over your own destiny is what makes folks check out, and it’s happening everywhere right now. And…nobody is doing a good job of addressing it, and it’s costing companies. Pushing harder doesn’t shrink the lag. The people side of what we do was never ready for the speed of the technology we already had five years ago, and it’s no more ready today, because we haven’t changed anything. That’s the honest answer to why AI isn’t making companies faster. What leaders actually control A large part of this has nothing to do with the teams. It’s the voice of the leader. The answer is not making things sound more urgent. Pressing harder won’t help. Communicating what’s being built, why it’s being built, and who it’s for directly to the crews responsible for doing it, rather than from a board deck or a shareholder report. Creating a better tolerance for small failures, and giving people the tools to minize risk…that’s how teams can claim the autonomy, the authority and the courage to move. Speed comes from putting the important things at the top of the pile and letting the rest wait. Not from sweating harder. Not outsized consequences. Because if teams don’t feel authorized to do what’s necessary, they won’t do it. And we’ll keep covering the failures with dashboards and nonsense metrics, which serves nobody. If the honest answer to how long before a customer felt it is embarrassingly long, then the change begins with you. Want to learn more about how you can capitalize on this trend and help companies deal with the disarray and fallout of unsupported AI investment? It might be time to start something of your own. Check out Forge Genesis – newest cohort starting September 2026. **FORGE GENESIS IS HERE** All the skills you need to stop relying on job postings and start enjoying the freedom of an Agile career on YOUR terms. First cohort starts in Q1 2026 https://learning.fusechamber.com/forge-genesis **THE ALL NEW FORGE LIGHTNING** 12 Weeks to elite leadership! https://learning.fusechamber.com/forge-lightning **CHECK OUT ALL MY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES HERE:** https://learning.fusechamber.com We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgilea ****** Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized ...
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    10 Min.
  • How To Find Sanity At Scale with Dave Borzillo

    How To Find Sanity At Scale with Dave Borzillo
    Aug 25 2026

    Ever work on a team where there was one, maybe two people who could be counted on to drag a project across the finish line just before the stroke of 12:00? That’s what happens when you work at scale. People work hard, but the last thing they have time for is proper orchestration to help them land safely under pressure. Cutting people with an appropriate dialing back of scope makes the problem even worse.

    Dave Borzillo is a graduate of my Forge Genesis program. In the time we spent together, he advanced a business idea (or two), but he also conceived and wrote his latest book – “Sanity At Scale – How Engineering Leaders Move from Heroic Firefighting to Systemic Excellence”, now available on amazon.com or from his website, betterwaysofworking.com.

    Dave joins me for this one-on-one interview, where he reveals the dangers of heroic firefighting, why it can’t work at scale, and some of the strategies for ensuring your team doesn’t entrench these patterns. Make sure you grab this book – its no nonsense, crisp and useful for any team leader or agile practitioner!

    **FORGE GENESIS IS HERE**

    All the skills you need to stop relying on job postings and start enjoying the freedom of an Agile career on YOUR terms. First cohort starts in Q1 2026

    https://learning.fusechamber.com/forge-genesis

    **THE ALL NEW FORGE LIGHTNING**

    12 Weeks to elite leadership!

    https://learning.fusechamber.com/forge-lightning

    **CHECK OUT ALL MY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES HERE:**

    https://learning.fusechamber.com

    We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me:

    https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgilea

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    Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game.

    Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.
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    31 Min.
  • Stop Looking For Your Old Job – Angela Dugan of Red Foundry

    Stop Looking For Your Old Job – Angela Dugan of Red Foundry
    Aug 10 2026
    No amount of tooling makes an organization go faster or do better. AI has made that clearer than anything else I’ve watched in nine years of doing this. What it has produced instead is what people are now calling the human wreckage of AI. How I Met Angela Dugan So one day I’m cruising around LinkedIn, in a market where nobody can get hired and companies swear they can’t find anyone, and here’s someone doing something simple. She posted about a role she wasn’t hiring for. Didn’t have the requisition, and said so right in the post. It felt awkward, it felt vulnerable…and she put it up anyway, Because she wasn’t willing to wait until she desperately needed somebody before she started meeting people. She got dozens of replies in days. Almost every one of them said the same thing. “It’s a relief to talk to a human.” That’s Angela Dugan. She’s VP of Product Delivery at Red Foundry in Chicago, and she went first while everyone else was feeding resumes into a machine. Stop Looking For Your Past Roles You’ll hear about the advice that ended her own job search, which is the part I want you to sit with: stop looking for your past roles. Look for the activities you want to do, the outcomes you want to drive, the impact you want to have. She stopped hunting for anything with “agile” in the title. That’s how she got a director job at Microsoft, and the VP job she has now. She shares the story of her layoff. She was cut from Microsoft when the AI money started moving and the people money stopped. Two days later she left a comment on somebody else’s post. Not an ask, just empathy for someone in the same wave. And her future CEO saw it. Someone she’d consulted for back in 2014 and never stopped talking to. Ten years of keeping one relationship warm. That’s the whole story. The Human Side of Business and Tech This episode is about the human side of tech, AI and Agile. Right now the job market is breaking, but it won’t stay that way. Know why? Because results speak. And what we learn from Angela Dugan is that doing things the right way (which could mean leveraging AI, but not just throwing tasks carelessly over the fence to AI) gets noticed. Because the RIGHT people make impact. They touch the bottom line. And isn’t that what we’ve been talking about here on Badass Agile? Outcomes. Not frameworks, nor conventions. Not fashion or trends or fast money. Find Angela Dugan: LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/andugan/ (Put a note in the request.) She’s also at the local Chicago events and at VS Live. Show Notes **FORGE GENESIS IS HERE** All the skills you need to stop relying on job postings and start enjoying the freedom of an Agile career on YOUR terms. First cohort starts in Q1 2026 https://learning.fusechamber.com/forge-genesis **THE ALL NEW FORGE LIGHTNING** 12 Weeks to elite leadership! https://learning.fusechamber.com/forge-lightning **CHECK OUT ALL MY PRODUCTS AND SERVICES HERE:** https://learning.fusechamber.com We’re also on YouTube! Follow the podcast, enjoy some panel/guest commentary, and get some quick tips and guidance from me: https://www.youtube.com/c/BadassAgilea ****** Follow The LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/badass-agile ****** Our mission is to create an elite tribe of leaders who focus on who they need to become in order to lead and inspire, and to be the best agile podcast and resource for effective mindset and leadership game. Contact us (contact@badassagile.com) for elite-level performance and agile coaching, speaking engagements, team-level and executive mindset/agile training, and licensing options for modern, high-impact, bite-sized learning and educational content.
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    53 Min.
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