"Weekly CEO Update | The Team That Showed Us How to Operate" · 2026-06-24
If you operate in long cycles (e.g., week+), take your most important project, pull in the few people from other functions you actually need, put them in one room or one channel, do daily standups and ship something every day instead of every two weeks.
Daily standups replace 2-week sprint planning — pull cross-functional people (business, product, engineering) into one channel and ship something every day
Embed an AI Builder in every team/department — Madrid proved they move whole teams significantly faster
If you don't lead a team, pick one repetitive weekly task and have Claude ship a first-version agent the same day, then tell your manager
Argue in the open and let AI builders challenge leadership plans — 'a company that argues in the open and improves the plan in the room will beat a company that performs agreement'