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Start Leading with AI: A Week-Long Experiment for Busy CEOs
AI is reshaping how leaders operate, but seeing its potential and understanding how it could meaningfully fit into your day-to-day leadership are two different things. The leaders who adapt fastest won’t be the ones who know the most about AI; they’ll be the ones who experiment earliest. Competitive advantage is shifting toward executives who can use AI to widen their field of view, challenge their assumptions, and accelerate their clarity. To broaden your perspective on the
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Start Leading with AI: A Week-Long Experiment for Busy CEOs
AI is reshaping how leaders operate, but seeing its potential and understanding how it could meaningfully fit into your day-to-day leadership are two different things. The leaders who adapt fastest won’t be the ones who know the most about AI; they’ll be the ones who experiment earliest. Competitive advantage is shifting toward executives who can use AI to widen their field of view, challenge their assumptions, and accelerate their clarity. To broaden your perspective on the
5 days ago3 min read
How AI Changes Your Job as CEO
Last Tuesday, your CFO presented three acquisition targets. Each came with the usual arsenal: 50-page decks, financial models, market analyses. You had four hours to decide before the board meeting. You did what you've always done: relied on your gut, cross-referenced with two trusted advisors, and made the call. It worked. It always has. But here's what you didn't know: while you were triangulating opinions, your competitor's CEO fed the same data into Claude, ran sensitivit
Nov 195 min read
Unlearning and Adaptability: The Core Competencies of the Future-Proof Organization
The greatest threat to a modern enterprise is a management team clinging to an obsolete playbook. Today, leaders and employees need to focus on discarding outdated mindsets, assumptions, and processes that limit the ability to leverage AI's full potential. The strategic capacity for unlearning is inextricably linked to organizational adaptability: the ability to change and thrive in environments defined by constant technological and market flux. Research shows that successful
Nov 147 min read
The Stories Leaders Can Tell to Calm AI Anxiety
As AI becomes woven into the fabric of everyday work, employees are asking: “Where do I fit in now?” Fear of AI rarely comes from the technology itself. It comes from the belief that someone, or something, will take away a person’s agency, relevance, or dignity. If leaders don’t address that psychological gap directly, no amount of training or tools will ease the anxiety. This is why the stories leaders tell right now matter more than the tools they deploy. Stories shape mean
Nov 123 min read
Meet the Forward Deployed Engineer
Many organizations still struggle to translate the promise of artificial intelligence into measurable business results. The technology’s potential has been made clear, but its impact often remains trapped in pilot programs, unintegrated tools, or isolated innovation labs. One emerging solution is the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE): a hybrid professional who bridges the critical gap between data science and business execution. Rather than working in isolated technical teams,
Nov 66 min read
The Innovator's AI Dilemma
For decades, executives have wrestled with Christensen's theory of Disruptive Innovation: the idea that successful companies often fail to adapt to new technologies because they are too good at what they do. Now, a disruption of speed and scale we haven't seen since the internet's debut is here, and the stakes have never been higher. The choice before every business leader now is: Will you be the disruptor, or will you be the disrupted? AI is Following the Disruptive Playboo
Oct 304 min read
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