Ileana Scemtovici
@ileanascemtovici.bsky.social
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Question for you:
What’s the messiest problem you’ve ever fixed?
Or the one you’re stuck with right now?
Drop it below, or share your favorite “fixer move.”
Let’s build a public playbook together. 🧩
#Leadership #Operations #SystemsThinking #FixerMindset
What’s the messiest problem you’ve ever fixed?
Or the one you’re stuck with right now?
Drop it below, or share your favorite “fixer move.”
Let’s build a public playbook together. 🧩
#Leadership #Operations #SystemsThinking #FixerMindset
May 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Question for you:
What’s the messiest problem you’ve ever fixed?
Or the one you’re stuck with right now?
Drop it below, or share your favorite “fixer move.”
Let’s build a public playbook together. 🧩
#Leadership #Operations #SystemsThinking #FixerMindset
What’s the messiest problem you’ve ever fixed?
Or the one you’re stuck with right now?
Drop it below, or share your favorite “fixer move.”
Let’s build a public playbook together. 🧩
#Leadership #Operations #SystemsThinking #FixerMindset
Just published:
The Untangler: My Method for Bringing Order to Chaos
– Strategic frameworks
– Behavioral insights
– Real-world stories
– Tactical fixes
If you inherit broken systems, this is for you.
👉 www.strategicdepth.com/p/the-untang...
The Untangler: My Method for Bringing Order to Chaos
– Strategic frameworks
– Behavioral insights
– Real-world stories
– Tactical fixes
If you inherit broken systems, this is for you.
👉 www.strategicdepth.com/p/the-untang...
The Untangler: My Method for Bringing Order to Chaos
A Fixer’s Playbook for Turning Dysfunction into Flow, and Earning Trust While You Do It (The Art of the Fix Series)
www.strategicdepth.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Just published:
The Untangler: My Method for Bringing Order to Chaos
– Strategic frameworks
– Behavioral insights
– Real-world stories
– Tactical fixes
If you inherit broken systems, this is for you.
👉 www.strategicdepth.com/p/the-untang...
The Untangler: My Method for Bringing Order to Chaos
– Strategic frameworks
– Behavioral insights
– Real-world stories
– Tactical fixes
If you inherit broken systems, this is for you.
👉 www.strategicdepth.com/p/the-untang...
Fixers aren't always the loudest in the room.
They’re the ones who make things work again, without fanfare.
Their superpower?
Clarity under pressure.
Making the complex feel navigable.
Seeing the system beneath the symptoms.
They’re the ones who make things work again, without fanfare.
Their superpower?
Clarity under pressure.
Making the complex feel navigable.
Seeing the system beneath the symptoms.
May 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Fixers aren't always the loudest in the room.
They’re the ones who make things work again, without fanfare.
Their superpower?
Clarity under pressure.
Making the complex feel navigable.
Seeing the system beneath the symptoms.
They’re the ones who make things work again, without fanfare.
Their superpower?
Clarity under pressure.
Making the complex feel navigable.
Seeing the system beneath the symptoms.
Here’s my untangling method in 3 parts:
→ Diagnose the real issue (not the loudest one)
→ Break it down and prioritize sequence
→ Lead through iteration, calm, and documentation
Mess → Map → Flow
Repeat.
→ Diagnose the real issue (not the loudest one)
→ Break it down and prioritize sequence
→ Lead through iteration, calm, and documentation
Mess → Map → Flow
Repeat.
May 26, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Here’s my untangling method in 3 parts:
→ Diagnose the real issue (not the loudest one)
→ Break it down and prioritize sequence
→ Lead through iteration, calm, and documentation
Mess → Map → Flow
Repeat.
→ Diagnose the real issue (not the loudest one)
→ Break it down and prioritize sequence
→ Lead through iteration, calm, and documentation
Mess → Map → Flow
Repeat.
Fixing isn’t about control.
It’s about restoring flow.
When I walk into a mess, I don’t react.
I observe.
Who’s leading? Who’s really leading?
What’s broken, and what feels broken?
Where’s the pressure building?
It’s about restoring flow.
When I walk into a mess, I don’t react.
I observe.
Who’s leading? Who’s really leading?
What’s broken, and what feels broken?
Where’s the pressure building?
May 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Fixing isn’t about control.
It’s about restoring flow.
When I walk into a mess, I don’t react.
I observe.
Who’s leading? Who’s really leading?
What’s broken, and what feels broken?
Where’s the pressure building?
It’s about restoring flow.
When I walk into a mess, I don’t react.
I observe.
Who’s leading? Who’s really leading?
What’s broken, and what feels broken?
Where’s the pressure building?
You’ve seen it:
– Projects with 9 roadmaps, zero alignment
– Slack channels that feel like courtroom dramas
– “Urgent” fires no one can trace back to a real goal
People think it’s a tool issue.
It’s not.
It’s a systems issue.
– Projects with 9 roadmaps, zero alignment
– Slack channels that feel like courtroom dramas
– “Urgent” fires no one can trace back to a real goal
People think it’s a tool issue.
It’s not.
It’s a systems issue.
May 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM
You’ve seen it:
– Projects with 9 roadmaps, zero alignment
– Slack channels that feel like courtroom dramas
– “Urgent” fires no one can trace back to a real goal
People think it’s a tool issue.
It’s not.
It’s a systems issue.
– Projects with 9 roadmaps, zero alignment
– Slack channels that feel like courtroom dramas
– “Urgent” fires no one can trace back to a real goal
People think it’s a tool issue.
It’s not.
It’s a systems issue.
Final question:
Where does AI sit in your org?
Buried in an IT initiative?
Embedded in your capital bets?
In 2025, the real edge isn’t what you know.
It’s how you decide.
Let your sharpest hire prove it.
Where does AI sit in your org?
Buried in an IT initiative?
Embedded in your capital bets?
In 2025, the real edge isn’t what you know.
It’s how you decide.
Let your sharpest hire prove it.
May 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Final question:
Where does AI sit in your org?
Buried in an IT initiative?
Embedded in your capital bets?
In 2025, the real edge isn’t what you know.
It’s how you decide.
Let your sharpest hire prove it.
Where does AI sit in your org?
Buried in an IT initiative?
Embedded in your capital bets?
In 2025, the real edge isn’t what you know.
It’s how you decide.
Let your sharpest hire prove it.
Want to make this actionable?
I just wrote an executive guide:
“Beyond Dashboards: Why AI Is Finance’s Most Strategic Hire”
→ Sharp insights
→ Real examples
→ 4-part framework you can use tomorrow
🔗 www.strategicdepth.com/p/beyond-das...
I just wrote an executive guide:
“Beyond Dashboards: Why AI Is Finance’s Most Strategic Hire”
→ Sharp insights
→ Real examples
→ 4-part framework you can use tomorrow
🔗 www.strategicdepth.com/p/beyond-das...
Beyond Dashboards: Why AI Is Finance’s Most Strategic Hire, Not a Shiny Gadget
And How To Get Started With It
www.strategicdepth.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Want to make this actionable?
I just wrote an executive guide:
“Beyond Dashboards: Why AI Is Finance’s Most Strategic Hire”
→ Sharp insights
→ Real examples
→ 4-part framework you can use tomorrow
🔗 www.strategicdepth.com/p/beyond-das...
I just wrote an executive guide:
“Beyond Dashboards: Why AI Is Finance’s Most Strategic Hire”
→ Sharp insights
→ Real examples
→ 4-part framework you can use tomorrow
🔗 www.strategicdepth.com/p/beyond-das...
If you're serious about capital strategy, M&A, or forecasting:
Stop keeping AI in the sandbox.
Start bringing it into the messy rooms.
If there's money at risk and time pressure involved AI should be in the room.
Stop keeping AI in the sandbox.
Start bringing it into the messy rooms.
If there's money at risk and time pressure involved AI should be in the room.
May 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
If you're serious about capital strategy, M&A, or forecasting:
Stop keeping AI in the sandbox.
Start bringing it into the messy rooms.
If there's money at risk and time pressure involved AI should be in the room.
Stop keeping AI in the sandbox.
Start bringing it into the messy rooms.
If there's money at risk and time pressure involved AI should be in the room.
The winners in 2025?
They won’t be the ones using AI.
They’ll be the ones thinking with it.
Because financial edge now comes from one thing:
Speed of inference.
And AI is your most strategic hire for that.
They won’t be the ones using AI.
They’ll be the ones thinking with it.
Because financial edge now comes from one thing:
Speed of inference.
And AI is your most strategic hire for that.
May 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The winners in 2025?
They won’t be the ones using AI.
They’ll be the ones thinking with it.
Because financial edge now comes from one thing:
Speed of inference.
And AI is your most strategic hire for that.
They won’t be the ones using AI.
They’ll be the ones thinking with it.
Because financial edge now comes from one thing:
Speed of inference.
And AI is your most strategic hire for that.
Meanwhile, most finance teams are stuck in the reporting habit:
→ Backward-looking dashboards
→ Delayed insights
→ Quarterly thinking in real-time markets
You don’t need prettier graphs.
You need sharper judgment.
→ Backward-looking dashboards
→ Delayed insights
→ Quarterly thinking in real-time markets
You don’t need prettier graphs.
You need sharper judgment.
May 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Meanwhile, most finance teams are stuck in the reporting habit:
→ Backward-looking dashboards
→ Delayed insights
→ Quarterly thinking in real-time markets
You don’t need prettier graphs.
You need sharper judgment.
→ Backward-looking dashboards
→ Delayed insights
→ Quarterly thinking in real-time markets
You don’t need prettier graphs.
You need sharper judgment.
What does that look like?
→ Surfacing weak signals before risk hits the P&L
→ Simulating trade-offs before the decision is baked
→ Auditing assumptions your team’s too comfortable to question
That’s not tech.
That’s decision leverage.
→ Surfacing weak signals before risk hits the P&L
→ Simulating trade-offs before the decision is baked
→ Auditing assumptions your team’s too comfortable to question
That’s not tech.
That’s decision leverage.
May 19, 2025 at 2:39 PM
What does that look like?
→ Surfacing weak signals before risk hits the P&L
→ Simulating trade-offs before the decision is baked
→ Auditing assumptions your team’s too comfortable to question
That’s not tech.
That’s decision leverage.
→ Surfacing weak signals before risk hits the P&L
→ Simulating trade-offs before the decision is baked
→ Auditing assumptions your team’s too comfortable to question
That’s not tech.
That’s decision leverage.
That’s the problem.
AI isn’t just for automation.
It’s a mental model disruptor.
Used right, it enhances your strategic cognition, your ability to navigate complexity, spot non-obvious patterns, and act with clarity.
AI isn’t just for automation.
It’s a mental model disruptor.
Used right, it enhances your strategic cognition, your ability to navigate complexity, spot non-obvious patterns, and act with clarity.
May 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
That’s the problem.
AI isn’t just for automation.
It’s a mental model disruptor.
Used right, it enhances your strategic cognition, your ability to navigate complexity, spot non-obvious patterns, and act with clarity.
AI isn’t just for automation.
It’s a mental model disruptor.
Used right, it enhances your strategic cognition, your ability to navigate complexity, spot non-obvious patterns, and act with clarity.
In a leadership meeting, AI gets pitched like a coffee machine:
“Can it automate reports?”
“Write investor updates?”
“Maybe a chatbot for procurement?”
Everyone nods.
Nobody asks:
“How does this change how we make million-dollar decisions?”
“Can it automate reports?”
“Write investor updates?”
“Maybe a chatbot for procurement?”
Everyone nods.
Nobody asks:
“How does this change how we make million-dollar decisions?”
May 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In a leadership meeting, AI gets pitched like a coffee machine:
“Can it automate reports?”
“Write investor updates?”
“Maybe a chatbot for procurement?”
Everyone nods.
Nobody asks:
“How does this change how we make million-dollar decisions?”
“Can it automate reports?”
“Write investor updates?”
“Maybe a chatbot for procurement?”
Everyone nods.
Nobody asks:
“How does this change how we make million-dollar decisions?”
Forecast chaos = asymmetric opportunity.
Forget who’s “right.”
Ask:
Where’s the variance?
What’s underpriced?
Who’s quietly enabling everyone?
Volatility is your edge—if you know how to trade it.
#Investing #Forecasting #Tech
Forget who’s “right.”
Ask:
Where’s the variance?
What’s underpriced?
Who’s quietly enabling everyone?
Volatility is your edge—if you know how to trade it.
#Investing #Forecasting #Tech
May 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Forecast chaos = asymmetric opportunity.
Forget who’s “right.”
Ask:
Where’s the variance?
What’s underpriced?
Who’s quietly enabling everyone?
Volatility is your edge—if you know how to trade it.
#Investing #Forecasting #Tech
Forget who’s “right.”
Ask:
Where’s the variance?
What’s underpriced?
Who’s quietly enabling everyone?
Volatility is your edge—if you know how to trade it.
#Investing #Forecasting #Tech
Digital twins of people are real.
Your thinking. Your tone. Your logic.
Replicated. Scaled. Deployed.
Do you control your digital self or will it control you?
Governance starts now.
#AIethics #ExecutiveBrand #DigitalTwins
Your thinking. Your tone. Your logic.
Replicated. Scaled. Deployed.
Do you control your digital self or will it control you?
Governance starts now.
#AIethics #ExecutiveBrand #DigitalTwins
May 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Digital twins of people are real.
Your thinking. Your tone. Your logic.
Replicated. Scaled. Deployed.
Do you control your digital self or will it control you?
Governance starts now.
#AIethics #ExecutiveBrand #DigitalTwins
Your thinking. Your tone. Your logic.
Replicated. Scaled. Deployed.
Do you control your digital self or will it control you?
Governance starts now.
#AIethics #ExecutiveBrand #DigitalTwins
Reversible bets are underrated.
They let you test bold ideas without committing reputational suicide.
→ Modular
→ Vendor-agnostic
→ Fast-fail ready
Build options, not tombstones.
#Innovation #TechStrategy
They let you test bold ideas without committing reputational suicide.
→ Modular
→ Vendor-agnostic
→ Fast-fail ready
Build options, not tombstones.
#Innovation #TechStrategy
May 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reversible bets are underrated.
They let you test bold ideas without committing reputational suicide.
→ Modular
→ Vendor-agnostic
→ Fast-fail ready
Build options, not tombstones.
#Innovation #TechStrategy
They let you test bold ideas without committing reputational suicide.
→ Modular
→ Vendor-agnostic
→ Fast-fail ready
Build options, not tombstones.
#Innovation #TechStrategy
Digital Twin ≠ One Thing
Stop saying “digital twin” unless you know which one you mean.
There are 4 distinct loops:
Assets
People
Processes
Knowledge clones
Different timelines. Different ROI. Different risks.
#EmergingTech #DigitalStrategy
Stop saying “digital twin” unless you know which one you mean.
There are 4 distinct loops:
Assets
People
Processes
Knowledge clones
Different timelines. Different ROI. Different risks.
#EmergingTech #DigitalStrategy
May 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Digital Twin ≠ One Thing
Stop saying “digital twin” unless you know which one you mean.
There are 4 distinct loops:
Assets
People
Processes
Knowledge clones
Different timelines. Different ROI. Different risks.
#EmergingTech #DigitalStrategy
Stop saying “digital twin” unless you know which one you mean.
There are 4 distinct loops:
Assets
People
Processes
Knowledge clones
Different timelines. Different ROI. Different risks.
#EmergingTech #DigitalStrategy
What’s one belief in your strategy
you’re willing to let AI challenge today?
you’re willing to let AI challenge today?
May 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
What’s one belief in your strategy
you’re willing to let AI challenge today?
you’re willing to let AI challenge today?
AI won’t make you a better leader.
But it will expose the gap between where you are…
And where you could be—if you let it.
But it will expose the gap between where you are…
And where you could be—if you let it.
May 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
AI won’t make you a better leader.
But it will expose the gap between where you are…
And where you could be—if you let it.
But it will expose the gap between where you are…
And where you could be—if you let it.
Here’s the kicker:
You don’t need to master the tech.
You need to master the questions.
You don’t need to master the tech.
You need to master the questions.
May 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here’s the kicker:
You don’t need to master the tech.
You need to master the questions.
You don’t need to master the tech.
You need to master the questions.