The Easy Answers are Free. The Wrong Questions are Fatal.
The "commoditization of certainty" is the defining economic reality of our time. Answers to nearly any question can be obtained in less than 60 seconds from a free website. For…
The 2026 AI Pivot · From Magic Tricks to Margin Impact · What CEOs should know about AI
The 2026 AI Pivot: From "Magic Tricks" to Margin Impact If you are like most mid-market CEOs today, you are suffering from a specific, acute form of executive exhaustion: "AI…
Imagination · The Human Superpower AI Still Can’t Touch
Why "Counterfactual Reasoning" Separates Human Intelligence from Machine Intelligence Of all the capabilities that distinguish human intelligence from artificial systems, imagination may be the most important. It is the ability…
Differentiation is About to be Disrupted
Differentiation has always been the foundation of competitive strategy. Companies invest years building capabilities that rivals struggle to imitate. They refine processes, culture, expertise, and customer experience until these elements…
AI Revolution as Opportunity · Why Skilled Captains Like Rough Seas to Extend Their Lead
Every generation faces an inflection point, a moment when the conditions shift so dramatically that leadership becomes visible in sharp relief. In those moments, steady waters don’t define greatness. Rough…
Future-Proof your Organization · AI-Human Collaboration & Max Automation
For midsize organizations, the question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will change how work gets done - it already has. The real question is how leaders can design their…
Who’s Thinking Strategically About IT & AI for Your Organization?
It's a question that every board of directors should be asking, of leaders of organizations large and small. And it’s a question that too many CEOs can’t answer with conviction.…
Extinction Events for the Hesitant · Lessons for the AI Revolution from the Industrial Revolution
History is often taught as a series of dates and inventions. But for the business leaders who lived through them, history wasn't a timeline, it was a battlefield. In the…
The Coming Quantum Challenge to Cryptography & Encryption
Quantum computing, a once-theoretical frontier of science fiction, now stands at the precipice of reality, threatening to upend the very foundations of cryptographic security that underpin global commerce, communications, and…
The Added Bonus of Automation & AI · Resiliency
In addition to the enormous benefits organizations are reaping through automation & AI on their efficiencies and capabilities, another kind of "bonus" benefit has risen in importance and impact through…