AI Darwinism isn’t coming. It’s here. The evolution has already begun inside every organization where employees are experimenting faster than leadership is redesigning the systems around them. Microsoft’s 2026 Work Trend Index Annual Report makes the gap clear: AI is expanding human agency, but many organizations are not yet built to capture it. That’s the real challenge now. Leadership. The companies that win this next era will be the ones brave enough to reimagine work, empower curiosity, create psychological safety,…
Are We Inventing Tomorrow or Optimizing Yesterday? Guy Kawasaki and I unpack the tension at the center of AI, innovation, and leadership today
What a gift to spend time with an old friend (meaning we’ve been friends for a long time. He’s not old!) My latest conversation with Guy Kawasaki on his show, Remarkable People, reminded me that the future is never just a technology story. It is a human one. AI may change how we work, compete, and create, but it also exposes something deeper: whether we are using new tools to do yesterday more efficiently, or to imagine something genuinely better….
AI Darwinism: How Leaders Move from Automation to Reinvention
I joined The Meg & Amy Show and it felt less like an interview and more like a 1-hour masterclass on how to survive AI Darwinism. So, welcome to my masterclass: “AI Darwinism: How Leaders Move from Automation to Reinvention.” Free admission…enroll (watch) now! Course insights: You’ll learn what AI is really asking of leaders now: why AI maturity is getting harder, why too many organizations are using AI to optimize yesterday, and how the next generation of leaders can…
WP Engine Blog: DE{CODE} 2026: Shaping the Intelligent Web, Together
WP Engine’s seventh annual DE{CODE}, a global virtual conference designed for developers, agencies, and marketers driving web innovation, brought together a massive global audience. With nearly 2,800 live attendees, sessions explored how AI is reshaping the way the web works for both humans and agents. More than 40 speakers took the virtual stage to share expert insights on everything from machine-readable content to the rise of zero-click commerce. This year’s conference was a deep, unflinching look at what it means…
Brian Solis: De industrie geeft de toekomst van AI een verkeerd beeld
Credit Volgens Brian Solis wordt de toekomst van AI momenteel verkeerd geframed door headlines, algoritmes en invloedrijke stemmen binnen de industrie. Hij stelt dat we ons midden in een van de belangrijkste technological verschuivingen ooit bevinden, maar dat het publieke debat daarover intellectueel misleidend is geworden. Zoals hij zelf scherp verwoordt: “AI’s biggest challenge right now is not only technical. It is narrative.” Aan de jan kant domineren utopische beloftes, aan de andere kant doemscenario’s over massale werkloosheid en economische…
Fear is rising, Trust is falling, and the AI industry has no one to blame but itself…and what to do about it
Fear is rising. Trust is falling. And the AI industry has no one to blame but itself. For the last two years, the loudest voices in AI have sold the future through a mix of inevitability, disruption, and dread: AGI is near, jobs are going away, the economy may collapse, and somehow this is all supposed to inspire confidence. It doesn’t. It creates narrative debt. And now that debt is coming due, especially among the very people who are supposed…
AI Is Changing More Than Work, It’s Rewiring Executive Decision-Making
The most important AI shift in business right now is not happening in the tech stack. It’s happening in the mindset of leadership. As executives lean more heavily on AI to guide decisions, a bigger question is coming into focus: is AI expanding judgment, or slowly replacing it? A March 2026 report highlighted by The Register, citing Confluent’s survey of 200 UK private-sector leaders, found that 62% of leaders use AI to make the majority of their decisions. Not some…
What it means when CEOs Step Down Because the Future of AI Arrived Faster Than the Role
When major CEOs begin framing succession around AI, it signals something larger than a changing of the guard. It suggests that the leadership model itself is being redefined in real time. This is not about becoming more efficient with new tools. It is about whether today’s leaders can redesign work, decision-making, and value creation for a world shaped by intelligence at scale. Recently, two iconic CEOs announced that they’re stepping aside and called for a new genre of leader in…
Forbes: Why Leaders Are Prioritizing AI Platforms And People To Reinvent Their Business
Via Brian Solis, Forbes Every week, another enterprise and frontier company announces a new AI model, another copilot, another assistant, another agent. And yet, when you ask leaders whether their organizations are actually operating differently, whether decisions are faster, outcomes more autonomous, models of work truly reinvented, the honest answer is often a hesitant, “no.” This creates an enterprise transformation gap between AI that thinks at the individual level and AI that can execute across workflows. Companies are investing billions,…
CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient, Employees Tell a Different Story
What will they do all day Wish list for diana Two Wall Street Journal stories got me thinking. When you read them together, they explain why so many companies feel stuck with AI, or feel further along than they really are. One story quotes tech leaders arguing that what a CEO does might be “one of the easier things” for AI to do. Sundar Pichai said it. Sam Altman doubled down and talked about an AI running divisions, even entire…