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Forget the Data Scientists. Is Your Team Actually Ready for AI?

Building an AI-ready team has almost nothing to do with hiring people who know how to build AI. IKEA turned 8,500 call centre workers into interior design consultants and generated an extra $1.4 billion in revenue. They did not hire a single data scientist to do it. They invested in the people they already had. That is the playbook.

Dec 03, 2025 • 12 min read • Girish Koliki

Team Building

How to Build Engineering Teams That Don't Need You

The best engineering managers are building towards their own irrelevance, and most get this exactly backwards. They optimise for being indispensable when the actual job is to build a team that runs on shared context, distributed decision-making, and mutual accountability rather than your personal presence in every room.

Mar 10, 2025 • 14 min read • Girish Koliki