Books
Cheap to Make, Costly to Check
Organization under AI, Volume 1
Forty-one bids. Two days to evaluate them. One signature.
A purchasing manager at a mid-sized machine builder reads the first ten bids that a scoring function ranked for her, and signs. The shop that kept the plant running at night for fourteen years is ranked nineteenth, and nobody reads its three pages. Nobody did anything wrong, and that is the problem.
The book follows this award from the software update in March to the phone call in February and asks two questions: who owns the checking that AI leaves behind, and can that person carry it? It offers four zones instead of four boxes, a set of triggers that come before the zones, and worksheets you can use the same week.
Paperback and ebook on Amazon, also in Kindle Unlimited.
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UNMANAGED
Lukas Michel, Herb Nold and Guido Bosbach · LID Publishing, London, 2026
What happens to an organization when management stops trying to control what it cannot see, and starts designing the conditions in which people can decide well. Built on twenty-five years of data from the Organization Twin.
ISBN 978-1-917391-46-7
Patterns of Mastery
Business Cases for the Digital Economy · Lukas Michel, Johanna Anzengruber, Herb Nold · LID Publishing · Foreword by Guido Bosbach
The study analyzes data from 458 organizations by industry and shows which patterns set high-performing organizations apart from average ones.
In German
My German books are listed on the German site: Wer prüft, zahlt (the German edition of Cheap to Make, Costly to Check), Kein Naturgesetz on climate and organizational decisions, re:Think 2035 and ArbeitsVisionen 2025. Bücher →