About & the Book
Observe, Think, ActStrategic Leadership in the Age of AI
by Risto Siilasmaa
Four parts
How the book is built
- Part I
- The loop — how organisations observe, think, and act, and where each phase breaks. [Part title placeholder]
- Part II
- The evidence — what the OTA-200 Study's two hundred cases show about success and failure. [Part title placeholder]
- Part III
- The findings — the Success Architecture Grid, the Culture Trap, and the Asymmetry Principle. [Part title placeholder]
- Part IV
- Adding the engine — the eighteen-tool toolkit for running the loop with AI, under human leadership.
Where can I get the book?
On publication
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About the author
Kept short on purpose
Risto Siilasmaa founded F-Secure, chaired it for over three decades, and chaired Nokia through its 2012–2020 transformation — a decade of sitting where the OTA loop either runs or breaks. Observe, Think, Act is his attempt to turn that experience, tested against two hundred scored cases, into something other leaders can use.
The shortest way to understand his argument is not this paragraph — it is the framework and the research behind it.