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Article

AI Is Raising the Value of Human Maturity — Not Replacing It

AI can already reproduce expert knowledge in seconds. But organizations still struggle with the same problems.

May 12, 2026

Article

Beyond the Rollout: Why Lasting Organizational Development Demands Shared Commitment

Why real organizational development requires co-creation, vertical leadership growth, and the willingness to change — not just the wish for change.

May 12, 2026

Case Study

From Operational Firefighting to Intentional Leadership

What does it actually take to lead intentionally inside a system that constantly pulls you toward reactivity? A one-year case study.

May 13, 2026

Article

Leading While Tired: Why So Many Leaders Are Drained — and What You Can Do About It

Why are so many capable leaders running on empty — and what actually helps? A candid look at leadership fatigue, the Gallup data behind it, and the way out.

May 15, 2026

Publication

When Leaders Can No Longer Switch Off

When was the last time you actually switched off — not the laptop, but your head? 62% of the 24 senior leaders in our latest assessment cohort can't anymore. And almost none of them would describe themselves as struggling.

May 17, 2026

Case Study

The €-Million Question. Save it - or kill it?

Double-digit million-euro investment on the line. Eighteen months later, the question had changed.

Jun 12, 2026

Article

The Conflict Nobody Talks About: When Business and Development Work Past Each Other

Business, product, and development sit in the same meetings, use the same tools, and still work past each other. The result looks like a delivery problem, but it is usually an unresolved conflict. Why cold conflicts are so expensive, and what it takes to make them workable again.

Jul 6, 2026

Article

"They Just Don't Get It" - And Why That's Almost Never the Real Problem

Almost every second leader we coach arrives with the same sentence about the level above them: "They just don't get it." It feels like a comprehension problem. It almost never is and treating it as one quietly costs organizations their most forward-thinking minds.

Jul 22, 2026

Article

What is a Product Leader?

We got this question increasingly often and yes, it’s unclear to most people: What is the difference to a Product Owner? To Product Manager? Or is it the boss of them?

Sep 1, 2026

Article

The Role Is Disappearing. The Responsibility Is Not.

The 2026 CPO Insights Report predicts the end of the product manager role by 2030. ProductPlan's State of Product Management Report shows that over 60 percent of prioritization frameworks are already overridden by leadership escalations. Read together, they describe one mechanism — and it is not about AI eating a job.

Sep 21, 2026

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