omyk.co db/s
LightNews LightNews
banner
omyk.co
omyk.co db/s
@omyk.co
30 followers 39 following 170 posts
Design + brand / strategy that does business for Silicon Valley and the rest of the world: B2B/2C UX design, service design and consulting for businesses large and small (enterprise, SMB)
🔗 linktr.ee/omykco
Posts Replies Media Videos
Reposted by omyk.co db/s
omyk.co
With so many unknown unknowns and potential pitfalls on the path to successful agentic #AI, it can make sense to #focus GenAI #strategy on a well-trodden use case we know works to unlock value:

LLMs are best at words, after all

#marketing #firstprinciples #business

hbr.org/2025/11/stop...
Stop Running So Many AI Pilots
Companies eager to adopt generative AI often launch numerous pilots across departments, chasing quick wins and marginal efficiencies. But a scattershot approach won’t deliver transformative impact. Th...
hbr.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
omyk.co
With so many unknown unknowns and potential pitfalls on the path to successful agentic #AI, it can make sense to #focus GenAI #strategy on a well-trodden use case we know works to unlock value:

LLMs are best at words, after all

#marketing #firstprinciples #business

hbr.org/2025/11/stop...
Stop Running So Many AI Pilots
Companies eager to adopt generative AI often launch numerous pilots across departments, chasing quick wins and marginal efficiencies. But a scattershot approach won’t deliver transformative impact. Th...
hbr.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Reposted by omyk.co db/s
omaryak.net
“Future mundane” is an approach recommended by a futurist to encourage companies to avoid the pitfalls of short-termism in quarterly capitalism. IBM’s CEO said to avoid "toys on the side” and focus on “the things you can scale”

www.fastcompany.com/91426058/why...

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Why Silicon Valley's vision of the future is broken—and how to fix it
Nick Foster, an ex-Google futurist, argues big tech's imagination has been hijacked by sci-fi and earnings calls. He offers a simple way for any leader to get back to what made Silicon Valley great.
www.fastcompany.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
omyk.co
“While generative #AI seems to have arrived … in just the last few years, it in fact is firmly grounded in decades of foundational #science … With agentic AI, we are in genuinely new territory, with few established … principles to set expectations”

www.theguardian.com/business-bri...
The science of agentic AI: What leaders should know
The science of agentic AI: What leaders should know
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
omyk.co
More on #resilience in #leadership from @hbr.org, including how to “get uncomfortable to get comfortable”

www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/tran...

hbr.org/2025/09/iden...

#firstprinciples
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
omyk.co
Paradoxically, most quality thinking doesn’t come from actively thinking about something

Some thoughts on #humanity, #culture and strategy to help you get over hump day, and “the hump of work” —“that great big hill of life”

#firstprinciples

37signals.com/06

basecamp.com/shapeup/3.4-...
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reposted by omyk.co db/s
omaryak.net
The cutting edge of #AI thought leadership is exploring how agentic AI models can communicate with one another to enable independent learning—still in its very early stages. Organizations would do well to prepare for this future by using data hygiene now for smarter decisions later

#firstprinciples
How AI Agents "Talk" to Each Other | Towards Data Science
Minimize chaos and maintain inter-agent harmony in your projects
towardsdatascience.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Reposted by omyk.co db/s
omyk.co
“Solving the puzzle” can happen as a team effort sooner if #designthinking is deployed on #AI projects to reduce ambiguity, add #clarity of purpose, and define metrics and objectives for success

#systemsthinking supplements these #firstprinciples

hbr.org/2025/10/desi...

hbr.org/2025/10/use-...
Designing a Successful Agentic AI System
Agentic AI systems can execute workflows, make decisions, and coordinate across departments. To realize its promise, companies must design workflows around outcomes and appoint mission owners who defi...
hbr.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:47 AM
omyk.co
… add in a dash of purpose, and your #orgdesign is complete

High-performing teams get to mastery faster, with the right #leadership

hbr.org/2025/09/the-...

www.harvardbusiness.org/insight/make...
The Secret to Building a High-Performing Team
Teams need to be able to take risks—from making hard decisions, to naming inconvenient truths, to having a hard conversation—in order to be successful. But human biology makes risk-taking the exceptio...
hbr.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
omyk.co
… not to put too fine of a point on it, but

“Hustle #culture” may need a new motivating spark:

youtu.be/u6XAPnuFjJc

#humanity
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
omyk.co
Building #resilience lets teams … step it up?

🤔

youtu.be/ctMd5E7rRjs

www.linkedin.com/pulse/growth...
‘The growth mindset’ can supercharge teams instead of wearing them down. Here’s how
If your team is having trouble getting over the hump of a work effort, or burning out cycling between alternatives, check out these common misunderstandings of a growth mindset in modern American corp...
www.linkedin.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
omyk.co
Unlike anxiety, creative tension can be inquired with #resilience to identify rationale to get to #clarity

If someone is making you stress for no reason and gaslights you with “comfort with ambiguity,” that’s not #leadership —growth is not abuse

hbr.org/2019/01/how-...

hbr.org/2018/01/why-...
How to Debate Ideas Productively at Work
Research tells us that cognitive diversity makes a group smarter. Two heads are, indeed, better than one, and many heads are even better, especially when everyone is willing to share their expertise a...
hbr.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
omyk.co
In addition to #designthinking and #systemsthinking, #ux is an umbrella ☂️ concept that includes multidisciplinary #design considerations, not just aesthetics

Feeling stuck on a #business project? Check out these websites for #innovation inspiration:

lawsofux.com
principles.design
Home | Laws of UX
Laws of UX is a collection of best practices that designers can consider when building user interfaces.
lawsofux.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Reposted by omyk.co db/s
omyk.co
@fastcompany.com calls #ux one of the long-term investments you can make in your #business right now to set it up for future success

And to build #resilience, lead with #clarity and purpose

#vuca #leadership

www.fastcompany.com/91364093/how...
How leaders can future-proof their business
In an uncertain economy, invest in adaptability, long-term relationships, and customer experience.
www.fastcompany.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
omyk.co
@fastcompany.com calls #ux one of the long-term investments you can make in your #business right now to set it up for future success

And to build #resilience, lead with #clarity and purpose

#vuca #leadership

www.fastcompany.com/91364093/how...
How leaders can future-proof their business
In an uncertain economy, invest in adaptability, long-term relationships, and customer experience.
www.fastcompany.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Reposted by omyk.co db/s
omaryak.net
The World Bank has sounded the alarm on air pollution’s effects on the broader #economy; it’s not just an #environment issue anymore. Pollution reductions worked until 2012, when it started rising again, partially due to the rise of Uber, Doordash et al.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
World Bank urges fresh push on economic threat of pollution
Degraded land, polluted air and water stress pose a direct global economic threat but using natural resources more efficiently could cut pollution by half, one of the World Bank's senior managing directors told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
omyk.co
… in other words, #strategy helps it all come together, with a dose of #systemsthinking 💊

#orgdesign
November 9, 2025 at 7:39 PM
omyk.co
#leadership provides the landscape, or framework for success, the final missing piece of the puzzle 🧩

hbr.org/2025/08/buil...

hbr.org/2022/06/how-...
Building Employee Buy-In for Strategic Change
Strategic initiatives often land as abstract ideas that feel disconnected from (or irrelevant to) the reality on the ground. As the bridge between the boardroom and day-to-day operations, you need to ...
hbr.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
omyk.co
“Different strokes” allows for a faster drawing of the bigger picture. More #resilience on the team allows teams to put the pieces of the puzzle together sooner

#diversity #innovation
omaryak.net Omar Yacoubi @omaryak.net · 6d
As it turns out, diversity isn’t just racial. Openness “takes all kinds,” and that means more openness to divergent thinking and ideas. You know— #innovation

hbr.org/2017/03/team...

hbr.org/video/557494...
Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse
Find people who disagree with you and cherish them.
hbr.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
omyk.co
#humanity is the competitive edge these days, and not just in #design —more than numbers, #clarity gets results (OKRs over KPIs): the power of words in #business

quantive.com/resources/ar...
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM