Not the big philosophical version of that question. The practical one. How do you lead well when the tools, the pace, and the expectations are all shifting at once?
AI is part of that shift. But not in the way most headlines suggest.
What I'm seeing - inside Shipnet and in conversations across the industry - is that AI amplifies what's already there. If your data is messy, AI makes the mess faster. If your people are curious, AI makes them more capable. That's the pattern I keep coming back to.
Being part of #Omegro means that I get to sit with colleagues from across a portfolio of software businesses and ask: how are others doing this? The answers are rarely dramatic. They're practical. Someone found a better way to surface customer insight. Someone cut a workflow in half. Someone unlocked value in data they already had, but couldn't see clearly.
That's where the real opportunity is - not in the headline features, but in the compounding effect of small, usable improvements.
It's also changing what I look for in people, and in particular when we are hiring.
Patrick Lencioni's Working Genius model has been useful here. Not because it gives you a hiring checklist, but because it helps you understand how people actually contribute - where they spark, and where they stall. In an AI-enabled environment, the people who thrive aren't necessarily the ones who know the most. They're the ones who ask the best questions. Who are genuinely curious about what the tool can do, not just whether they can use it.
Curiosity, I'd argue, is now a core competency. More than any specific skill.
And this matters for our customers too.
We've been around since 1993. We understand the operations. What AI is doing now is letting us deliver insight faster, surface patterns earlier, and identify value in areas that weren't even on the roadmap.
That's not a promise - it's something we're seeing in practice.
The question for any fleet operator or manager is the same one I ask myself: are we set up to move at the pace this now makes possible?
The bridge hasn't changed. But the view from it is clearer than it's ever been.
Terje Kristiansen
CEO, Shipnet