Perspective · Culture & StrategyPeter Matysiak · Berlin · April 2026 · 9 min
Culture eats strategy. And culture runs on autonomy.
A working theory of where culture actually comes from — built around Schein's three-level model, the pyramid of autonomy (Tannenbaum–Schmidt, Appelo, Marquet), and the psychological safety that lets the pyramid carry weight. Why strategy that ignores the pyramid tends to be eaten by it, and a practical sequence for leaders who need the culture and the strategy to point the same way.
ReadPerspective · OperationsPeter Matysiak · Berlin · April 2026 · 8 min
People surprise you. When the conditions let them.
A working theory, distilled from operations work and from directing AI agents hands-on. The closer information, authority, and tools sit to the work, the more people surprise you. A description of the conditions under which this seems to hold, the one trap that tends to sit between a leader and that outcome, and the research that has named both.
ReadPerspective · AI OperationsPeter Matysiak · Berlin · April 2026 · 8 min
Agentic AI is here. The harder question is how.
Why most AI adoption isn't showing up in the P&L, the augmentation-to-autonomy shift, the Lean parallel, and a six-step sequence for operating the change.
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