June 10, 2025 #### Links [Transistor](https://share.transistor.fm/s/3acf82d0) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/show/3DBRCVFep0YbYeLPcVVXQv) [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/id1542392917) [Podcast Addict](https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/essential-dynamics-with-derek-hudson/3153944) #### Summary Derek Hudson and Dave Kane explore how technology is helping—or hindering—leaders in 2025. They map out where leadership attention gets hijacked, what clarity looks like at the operational and meta levels, and where technology still falls short. From financial visibility to systems insight and real-time flow feedback, the conversation traces both risk and opportunity, concluding that technology’s greatest potential lies not in automation, but in context-aware guidance and timing. #### Concepts - [[Leadership Attention]] - [[Drivers]] and [[Constraints]] #### Quotes > *The fundamental constraint of the progress of an organization is leadership attention. The capacity that leaders have to pay attention to something is the fundamental constraint of an organization because the leader's job is to put everything in place so that an organization can get to system flow.* > *The challenge with this technology we're facing today, just like all other technology we've had in the past, is its capacity to do the wrong thing at increasing levels of efficiency. And so there's just the potential for being overwhelmed with information which looks like it's on point… You can look like you're doing good work, but it could be a huge waste of time.* > *What if you could use technology to make the progress of the organization more visible to everyone? Like… everybody knows what the score is all the time. But in complex organizations, we don't see that as much. And what if there were ways of tracking flow through the organization that people could see visually, see in real time?”* > *If you can learn the thing that you need at the time you need it, then you can make a fantastic change in the organization. But if you go to a course for four days and get nothing that you need in the moment… by the time you need it, you might not even remember where to look. So I think there's an opportunity for technology to serve up what we need when we need it. And that's one of the things I've been thinking about.* > #### See also - [[Episode 107 The Six Functions of Leadership]] - [[Episode 111 Tal Pizzey - Engineering System Flow]] - [[Episode 112 Tal Pizzey – System Flow at Scale]] - [The Goal](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/113934.The_Goal) by Eliyahu Goldratt %% ### Podcast Episode 1 — _"Leading Through the Fog: 2025’s Hidden Challenges"_ rejected quotations > What might we expect leaders to be able to help… to do better particularly on this issue of leadership attention deficit? > > So the leaders kind of need that uniform or unfiltered way of seeing everything in… the organization. > Right now, what we have is Derek the guide… pulling the pieces that are most relevant for you and sort of bring it into the context that you want - **Hosts:** Derek Hudson + Dave Kane - **Focus:** - - Leadership Attention Deficit - Noise vs. signal in the age of AI - Ad hoc systems and purpose drift - What leaders _really_ need: perspective, clarity, flow - **Call to Action:** "Something new is coming. You’ll want to see it." Don't ask "what can this AI do?" ask "what do I need to achieve flow?" - improve your system - at 2 levels - value Creation - production - if AI can elevate your constraint, great - if you didn't address your fundamental constraint, no point - like robots in the goal - metasystem - leadership attention - AI Present 3 problems - shiny new thing distraction - too much info distraction - making your own AI distraction - what you do need an AI that helps leaders attention deficit - first, figure out what to focus on - second, help with that work - third, help the teamn ### Podcast Episode 2 — _"Introducing EDy: Your System Sensei"_ - **Hosts:** Derek Hudson + Dave Kane - **Focus:** - What Essential Dynamics is - Why EDy isn’t just another chatbot or coach - How the tools (especially the Guide) help leaders gain clarity - **Call to Action:** "Try a conversation with EDy and see what you learn [[Spreadsheets and AI]] [[What a Leader Needs in 2025]]