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The ideas are in the book. Here's where you put them to work.

Practical worksheets, leadership exercises and tools for bringing the Five Pivots into your organization.

The companion library is being prepared

Free chapter worksheets and framework tools will be added here, chapter by chapter. No account will be needed to download them.

What you'll find here

Free, for you and your team

  • Chapter worksheets

    One for every chapter, for its questions and pivot moves.

  • Pivot tools

    Built around the book's frameworks, such as the 80% Rebuild and the Calorie Test.

  • Team Discussion Guide

    For leadership teams and book groups working through the Five Pivots.

Guided, for leadership teams

  • Workshops

    Guided sessions for teams ready to work through the Five Pivots together.

Find your chapter

Every chapter ends with a move to make this week. Each chapter has its own page here, where its tools will appear.

  1. Introduction · Five Pivots Not a Feature Upgrade

Part I · Work

  1. Chapter 1 · 80% Rebuild Stop AI-Washing
  2. Chapter 2 · Engine and the Car Depth Is Where the Value Is
  3. Chapter 3 · Memory Flywheel Memory Is the Moat
  4. Chapter 4 · 20× Signal Let Your Best People Burn Tokens

Part II · Organization

  1. Chapter 5 · Dual Engine Put It on the Calendar
  2. Chapter 6 · Say–Do Gap The Culture Is What You Do
  3. Chapter 7 · Role Redraw Build the AI-Native Team

Part III · Security

  1. Chapter 8 · Security Ladder Attackers Get Faster. So Must You.
  2. Chapter 9 · Observe · Govern · Stop A Gateway for Your Agents

Part IV · Strategy

  1. Chapter 10 · Calorie Test Build Proprietary, Buy the Rest
  2. Chapter 11 · Record-to-Action Spectrum From Systems of Record to Systems of Action
  3. Chapter 12 · Bounded Autonomy Autonomy Is Earned
  4. Chapter 13 · Day-One Test Pretend Day One

Part V · Leadership

  1. Chapter 14 · Optionality Optionality Makes You Stronger
  2. Chapter 15 · Ambitious Presence Eyes on the Horizon. Feet on the Ground.
  1. Conclusion AI Is Not the Destination

About the book

A rocket is not a faster car. And AI is not a faster version of the company you already have.

If we were starting today, knowing what AI can now do, would we build the business this way at all?

The Rocket Car Problem moves beyond tools and prompts to the leadership decisions underneath them. AI is not the destination. Better outcomes are. More about the book

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Cover of The Rocket Car Problem: Rethink. Rebuild. Lead with AI., by Padmaja Hari

About the author

Padmaja Hari is the founder of Shakti AI. She helps founders and CEOs redesign how work gets done around AI.

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