i found "executive mindset" to be the biggest differentiator from people who can use agents super effectively

it comes natural for people who had been an executive of a large org before, but it's counter-intuitive for people who haven't done so

a few examples

1. after you send a prompt, do you stare at the chat to see what the agent is doing?

most agent UX today leads people to do that, but a good executive never watches over an employee's shoulder after they've sent an ask - they are immediately on to the next problem

2. do you rely on chat for important decision making?

"just chat" sounds elegant, but there's a reason company executives rarely rely on plain talking for high stake decisions

instead, they ask the team for documents or presentations. it puts a bit more prep work on the team, but the discussions end up being a lot more efficient

3. when your agent did something wrong, do you curse at it and twist its arms to do it right?

some successful executives actually do that as well, but they also do something else afterwards - figure out what allowed the mistake to happen in the first place, and stop it at its root

4. do you spend all your time carefully examining everything to make sure the code is bug free?

now this is getting spicy, but you can pick any popular product on earth and you won't find a single one that's bug free

good executives accept the calculated risk and invest time in the right workflows to catch bugs early before shipping, get alerts if they happen, and making sure fixes can go out quickly - never make themselves the bottleneck by being the tester

our tools, skills, workflows etc change all the time, but building the right mindset is durable and can help you for a long time

if you aren't clear how to acquire the mindset yet, i recommend starting with asking yourself this when you try to decide to do something or not -

"if i have 100x more agents doing 100x more work for me every day, how would i do this?"

do this enough times, and you'll find yourself actually able to control 100x more agents effectively