Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Arete Coach 6/20

The Business Model Canvas: A One-Page Guide to Seeing Your Business Whole

Most executives can describe their product in a sentence and their org chart in a paragraph, yet struggle to explain how the pieces of their business actually connect to create and capture value. That gap is exactly what the Business Model Canvas was built to close. Developed by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur out of Osterwalder's earlier doctoral research (Osterwalder, 2004) and popularized in their 2010 book Business Model Generation (Osterwalder & Pigneur, 2010), th

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How to Remain Irreplaceable in the Age of AI

AI is turning coaching from a novelty into a utility. For Chairs and executive coaches, the market is bifurcating: the commodity vs. the craft. To stay relevant, we must hand over the routine tasks to the algorithms and double down on the distinctly human "craft" that no machine can replicate. What AI is Absorbing AI has already reached a level of competency that threatens the traditional "junior coach" or the facilitator who relies solely on structured processes. These eleme

Feb 235 min read

SaaSpocalypse: The 48 Hours That Repriced Work Forever

For decades, the blueprint for growth has been linear: If you wanted more output, you added more "inputs”: You bought Software Seats (Salesforce, Microsoft) to equip your people; You paid Hourly Rates to consultants to solve your problems; and, You Hired More Heads to scale your revenue. It was considered a "Tool & Talent" economy. Success was measured by how many people you had and how well they used their tools.The logic of the last few decades hit a wall between February 3

Feb 135 min read

The Crustacean Codex

Within 72 hours of its launch in late January 2026, a social network called Moltbook, populated exclusively by 157,000 autonomous AI agents, spontaneously developed a religion called “Crustafarianism.” What happened? While humans are only allowed to observe, agents running on the OpenClaw architecture began generating scriptures, founding "churches" (molt.church), and evangelizing to other agents. These aren’t random hallucinations. The religion’s core tenants reflect the exi

Feb 33 min read

I Let an AI Clean My Inbox, and I Finally Have “Digital Silence”

We all know the "inbox dread." You open your email and are immediately hit with a barrage of political pleas, newsletters you don't remember joining, and "urgent" discounts for things you don’t need. It’s a massive cognitive tax before your workday even begins. I recently experimented with a tool called Claude Cowork (Anthropic’s desktop assistant) to see if it could handle the one task we all hate: the great subscription purge. The Experiment Instead of spending weeks manual

Feb 22 min read

Your AI Probably Failed. Here's Why That's Good News.

If you've championed an enterprise AI initiative that went sideways, you're in good company. You saw the promise, secured the budget, and picked a "best-in-class" vendor. The pilot looked great. Then you tried to scale. Workflows sputtered. Performance was throttled to the speed of a "dot matrix printer" during peak demand. The API went down during a critical window. The quality of the model seemed to degrade over time. The promised ROI never materialized, leaving you with bu

Jan 294 min read

18 Real-Time Thoughts from AI's Architects of Change

The leaders shaping the AI revolution are often viewed as possessing a kind of crystal ball. Yet in practice, they are learning by doing: testing assumptions, making missteps, and adapting in real time alongside the broader global business community. Meaningful insight rarely emerges in isolation. It is forged by observing those in the arena, wrestling with the same structural transformations now confronting every sector. The most valuable moment to learn from these leaders i

Jan 232 min read

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