The future doesn’t ambush people. It announces itself, loudly, repeatedly, through signals most leaders are too busy to catch. If it caught you off guard, that’s not bad luck. That’s a failure of attention.
Category Archives: Innovation
In The AI Era, The Best People Are The Ones Who Can’t Wait To Replace Themselves
Noah Kagan, CEO of AppSumo, just sent a memo to his entire company. He didn’t sugarcoat it. AppSumo had a brutal year, lost teammates, lost revenue, and lost some of the joy. He owned it. Then he said something most CEOs write around in seventeen layers of corporate softener:
AI Is Creating Idle Capacity, Not Innovation
A friend of mine manages a department at a call center that handles bail bonds. Every Friday, she spends about two hours tracking down numbers scattered across multiple Excel files, pulling them into a single report. It’s tedious, mechanical, and completely automatable.
10x More Productive Means 10x Fewer People. Now What?
There’s a question your board is already asking, even if your leadership team isn’t: if AI makes every employee dramatically more productive, what do you need all those employees for?
What I’ve Learned Diagnosing AI Projects Before Building Them
When a client enters an AI engagement, they typically arrive in one of two ways. They know exactly what they want: a custom AI build, an automation, an agent. They’ve seen, read, or heard something. They have a spec in their head.
Stop Treating AI Like a Tool. It’s a Foundation
Every industry will be transformed by AI. Some will evolve. Others will disappear. New ones will be built from scratch. That’s not a prediction. It’s already in progress. The only question that matters now isn’t whether AI will reshape your business. It’s what position you’ll hold when it does.